Ph.D. in Public Policy & Management
Intersectional Experiences in the Workplace
Critical Race Theory
I adopt a Black feminist mixed-methods approach to study emotional experiences. By combining large N survey data, semi-structured interviews, and diary designs I find generalizable trends from longitudinal data while also contextualizing the numbers with qualitative work that centers the voices of participants and creates avenues for counter-storytelling.
Organizational Behavior
I look at the ways in which organizations reproduce inequality. My goal is to enhance our understanding of the differential interpersonal and emotional burdens experienced by diverse employees navigating social and institutional power asymmetries. I highlight how the simultaneous experience of multiple systems of oppression demands unacknowledged emotional labor of minoritized groups.
Emotional Labor
My research addresses the dynamic and highly contextual nature of emotions, particularly asymmetrical emotional burdens for women of color in the context of public and nonprofit organizations with responsibilities for direct service delivery, cross-sector collaboration, and policy advocacy.