I am a PhD Candidate at the UCSF-UC Berkeley Joint PhD Program in Medical Anthropology. I am also a student affiliate with the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Institute for Study of Societal Issues at UC Berkeley. I have served as a student member of the REPAIR Project at UCSF. I am the UCSF UC Dissertation-Year Fellow for 2025-2026. 

Outside of academia, I am a 200-hour certified yoga teacher at Corepower Yoga. I formerly served as a volunteer community organizer for Students Unite Now at Yale College, and New Haven Rising in New Haven, Connecticut.

Special Interests

Anthropology of Science; more-than-human entanglements; multi-species ethnography; Critical Race Theory; Queer Crip Theory; environmental racism; supernaturecultures; Caribbean studies; invasive animals; post-colonial theory; STS; consent; uncanny; haunting

Dissertation Research "Primates and Plantation Futures: Unsettling Science, Race, and Consent on St. Kitts"

The green monkeys (Chlorocebus Sabaeus) are considered invasive pests on the island of St. Kitts, introduced as a by-product of trans-Atlantic slave trade, and now differently valued in scientific research, tourism, and conservationism. The increasing frequency of encounters between humans and monkeys, and related food insecurity experienced by both, combine to create what is known locally as the monkey problem. St. Kitts is a primarily Black Caribbean country, with small minorities of affluent white and East Indian residents who control a significant amount of its resources. Green monkeys disrupt the farming projects of largely Black Kittitian and Caribbean migrant farmers by foraging for crops. For farmers, the need for intervention, such as culling or sterilizing monkeys, is urgent. I conducted 14 months of ethnographic on St. Kitts at sites of human-animal encounter, and archival research focused on post-colonial transitions on the island. I argue that the monkey problem is experienced as a series of overlapping hauntings, a coalescing of specters of colonial violence, the afterlives of slavery, fantasies of scientific objectivity, intertwined histories of speciesism and racism, and struggles for interpersonal and inter-species consent and refusal. Investigating the notion of monkeys as a problem reveals larger social, historical colonial, and racial structures of inequality.