RESEARCHER 

"The Extractive University"

January 2021- May 2024

Part of ongoing collaborative research on teaching as a labor process and collective action in academia. More on the project can be found here. 

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PROJECT DIRECTOR

Berkeley School of Public Health, Center for Genetics & Society

January 2022 - May 2024

Director of collaboration between Berkeley Law, the L.A. Review of Books, and the Center for Genetics and Society on the lasting legacies of eugenics on science, medicine, and technology.

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RESEARCHER 

SOCIAL SCIENCE MATRIX

May 2018 - May 2020

Part of a five-person interdisciplinary team awarded funding to further develop “Interpreting Risk in the Age of Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Health Testing,” a project investigating how consumers make sense of their genome-derived health data.

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RESEARCH FELLOW 

WESTFÄLISCHE WILHELMS-UNIVERSITÄT MÜNSTER

May 2019 - August 2019

As the first recipient of the Berkeley-Münster Exchange Fellowship, I spent several months living and working in Münster while conducting research on contraceptive control movements and ethnonationalism in the early 20th century.

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ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH

NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER

January 2015 - April 2017

Managed team of 15-20 interns in designing and completing original research in the field of socioeconomic dietary disparities and food marketing, as well as writing IRB proposals, grants, manuscripts, research design, coding manuals and data management protocols under Dr. Marie Bragg.

ASSOCIATE/ PRAKTIKANTIN, ENVIACON INTERNATIONAL, BERLIN

May 2015 - August 2015

Worked in a German speaking office researching bilateral investment between the US and Germany, Slovakia, Poland, and the Czech Republic. I also co-developed the company’s first Corporate Social Responsibility project.

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DEPUTY INTERN COORDINATOR, U.S. SENATE, WASHINGTON D.C.

January 2011 - May 2011     

Managed interns across office responsibilities and attended hearings and briefings on behalf of staff. I also assisted in drafting and editing correspondence for the senator’s Baha’i rights campaign.

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PAGE, U.S. SENATE, WASHINGTON D.C.

January 2010 - May 2010     

One of thirty Pages selected to serve on the floor of the U.S. Senate, later selected as one of two Democratic Pages to run floor the floor while the Senate was in session. I organized daily operations on the floor and coordinated communications across offices and lawmakers.

2022 Discipline Cluster Leader, First Time GSI Conference

2021 Discipline Cluster Leader, First Time GSI Conference

2021 Reader, “Cultures of Sexuality” with Jill Bakehorn

2020 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, UC Berkeley

2020 Co-Instructor of Record, “Sociology Pedagogy” with Michael Burawoy

2020 Graduate Student Instructor, “Contemporary Sociological Theory” with Cihan Tugal

2020 Discipline Cluster Technology Leader, First Time GSI Conference

2019 Graduate Student Instructor, “Cultures of Sexuality” with Jill Bakehorn

2019 Graduate Student Instructor, “Contemporary Sociological Theory” with Cihan Tugal 

2018 Graduate Student Instructor, “Contemporary Sociological Theory” with Chris Muller