Research Interests⌗
  • Social & Labor Movements [U.S. Sex Worker Rights & Anti-Trafficking Movements]
  • Sexual Politics & Sexual Citizenship
  • Surveillance & Technology
  • Social (In)Justice & Design (In)Justice

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Methodologies⌗
  • Evaluation Research & Root Cause Analysis
  • Trauma-Informed Qualitative Methods
  • Policy & Advocacy
  • Research & Implementation

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My Background⌗

I’m a feminist scholar-organizer building a career in community-powered research. I try to pursue types of work that facilitate “boots-on-the-ground” projects or meaning making in my own life. From night-shift trauma crisis-counseling, to organizational ops, to grassroots advocacy, my life as a public scholar is primarily informed by my experiences working in harm reduction with trans, queer, working-class or poor disabled sex workers, drug users, and communities that are facing multiple marginalizations.

I hold a B.S. in Sociology from Northeastern University, where I also minored in Psychology and Mathematics, a M.A. in Sociology from UNLV, a graduate certificate in Sexual Politics from the University of Amsterdam, and a graduate certificate in Social Justice Education from UNLV.

During my time at Northeastern I worked several Boston-area jobs including community relations @ pplm, rape crisis counseling in medical advocacy @ barcc, and operations @ root cause.

My senior thesis investigating social capital on a sex worker subreddit won the 2016 “Public Sociology” departmental award @ neu soc was accepted for presentation at 2016 ess.

While pursuing my PhD in Sociology I’ve worked as a teaching & research graduate assistant @ unlv soc, a doctoral evaluation researcher @ igi, and a graduate research assistant at @ crea. I served as the unlv sociology graduate representative @ gpsa from 2018-2020 where I helped develop unlv’s first grad student cap & gown lending program.

During my PhD grad career I also worked as the north american correspondent @ the global network of sex work projects, community outreach lead for the las vegas sex worker contingent @ women’s march, a COVID-contact tracer @ unlv public health, as well as the resident movement scholar and community researcher at @ hacking//hustling.

You can read my co-authored report on shadowbanning with hacking//hustling collective members here: “Posting Into the Void” (2020).

My academic (aka “peer-reviewed”) work is published in Porn Studies (2020) and Disability Studies Quarterly (DSQ) (2022). I am actively preparing journal paper submissions based on my dissertation, an in-depth analysis of the 2018 #LetUsSurvive campaign launched against SESTA/FOSTA. If you’d like to read my M.A. thesis paper about content analysis of #LetUsSurvive on Twitter, email me and I’ll send you a copy. :) To read a little bit about my M.A./PhD case study click here.

My public-facing writing includes bylines @ the nation (2021) and huffington post (2016). I also co-published the Sex Positive Manifesto for Social Media (2022) as an extension of a virtual community lab on sexual content moderation at RightsCon 2021.

I (mostly) identify as a public and community-based scholar-organizer-researcher. In 2019 I earned the “Graduate Student Public Sociology” award from unlv soc. I have been invited to speak on panels, facilitate community labs, and/or give talks @ Boston University’s Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences, RightsCon Global, Harvard’s Cyberlaw Clinic @ Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada’s Health Care Hearing w/ Senator Cortez Masto, the Labor & Working-Class History Association, as well as AIDS UNITED. My work as a community researcher is featured in VICELAND “VICE LABS,” BITCH MEDIA, DAILY DOT, SALON, THE OBSERVER, SALTY, and more…