She earned her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Arizona in 2016, along with a graduate certificate in Geographic Information Science (GIS) from the School of Natural Resources and the Environment and the School of Geography and Development. Her research lies at the intersection of urban sociology, the sociology of health and illness, and race/ethnicity. In particular, she examines racial residential segregation and health outcomes, with particular attention to how this relationship could be mediated by the presence of health-promoting community organizations in neighborhoods. To accomplish this, she uses a GIS to map out such resources in physical space, and spatial analytic techniques to examine how the relative presence/absence of these resources relates to other social attributes of neighborhoods.