I am an environmental demographer and incoming NIH T32-funded postdoctoral fellow at the Carolina Population Center at UNC Chapel Hill. 

My research examines intersections of migration, population health, environmental change, and rurality using interdisciplinary methods. My work spans geographic contexts and demographic inquires, from investigating women's migration and post-COVID well-being in Bangladesh to analyzing disaster impacts and rural health vulnerabilities in the United States. I am most interested in work that uses detailed data about people’s lives to understand and complicate large, complex demographic trends. 

I contribute methodological expertise in research design, data integration, and advanced analysis to multidisciplinary, multi-university collaborations. I excel at synthesizing complex spatial-temporal data from diverse sources to address pressing social and environmental changes.

Originally from the mountains of rural Tennessee, I hold a BA in International Affairs from the George Washington University and an MS and PhD in Environmental Studies from the University of Colorado Boulder. Before graduate school, I worked for international development and non-profit organizations in Myanmar, Puerto Rico, and Washington, D.C.