I am a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology at Rice University. I research urban housing development and maternal health in the United States and South Africa. Living in each country, I explore how not only generationally but spatially, urban segregation perpetuates maternal health inequalities

Additionally, I study how maternal health organizations and birthing support contribute to women’s health and well-being. Specifically, I am interested in how this support may offset the violence and oppression women experience medically and environmentally. Another aspect of my work investigates empowerment, imaginative resilience, and transcendence. I explore realties that exist beyond one’s physical and spacial reality.