My work explores how social movements mobilize medical knowledge and technologies to expand reproductive freedom. I am broadly interested in topics related to medicine, pharmaceuticals, sex/gender/sexuality, identity, reproduction, kinship/family, futures, activism, expertise, work, medicalization/pharmaceuticalization, tension, conflict, and philosophies of social change.

I am an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at SUNY Geneseo, where I teach in both the Anthropology and interdisciplinary Sociomedical Sciences majors. I hold a PhD in Anthropology from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). I also have advanced training in Public Health and Women’s and Gender Studies.

My research on the politics of abortion pills in Ireland has been published in the journals Medical Anthropology Quarterly and Feminist Anthropology, and in my book Pills & Protest: Abortion Access in Ireland (Bloomsbury 2025).

My current research examines how New York state has been impacted by the influx of out-of-state abortion-seekers in the wake of the Dobbs decision in 2022. I am exploring tensions around crisis, futurity, scarcity, and meanings of justice within social movements and healthcare provision. Ethnographic and qualitative research with abortion funds, practical support organizations, and clinic staff began in 2024 and is on-going.

I identify as an activist ethnographer and am also also deeply engaged in the movement for reproductive justice - I am a volunteer case manager with the New York Abortion Access Fund (NYAAF) and volunteer with the Online Abortion Resource Squad (OARS). I have previously held advocacy roles with Plan C Pills, the Miscarriage & Abortion (M&A) Hotline, and Planned Parenthood.