I am a doctoral candidate in sociocultural anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley, with a secondary focus on science and technology studies. An unusually interdisciplinary scholar, I also hold graduate degrees in economics and in human geography. 

I was part of the 2021–22 cohort for the Social Science Research Council’s Andrew W. Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship. I am also a past recipient of the M. Estellie Smith Award from the Society for Economic Anthropology; the Andrew & Mary Thompson Rocca Dissertation Research Grant; and graduate merit scholarships at both the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I have presented my research at the Lubna Chaudhry Human Rights Lecture Series at Binghamton University, the Society for Social Studies of Science, the Society for Economic Anthropology (as the M. . Estellie Smith Award winner), the British Institute in Eastern Africa, the Anthropological Association of Kenya, and the Center for African Studies at Berkeley.

My co-authored article “Refusing money, rejecting relations: the epistemological and political consequences of a development randomized controlled trial in Western Kenya” (with Mario Schmidt), for which I won the 2025 Bennetta Jules-Rosette Graduate Student Essay Award, has been accepted for publication by Current Anthropology. A second article, “Hayek’s anthropology: freedom, evolution, and the ghosts of neoliberalism,” is currently under submission.

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I live in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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