About

I am an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Saint Louis University. I study infrastructural inequality and its uneven effects, applying disability justice theory to reimagine data science, AI, and GIS.

My research investigates how mundane infrastructures — housing, transportation, and digital systems — produce and reinforce unequal realities for individuals and communities. A core thread of this work develops the emerging field of critical Disability GIS: examining how missing and biased environmental data shapes the lives of disabled people in cities, and building more just alternatives. Alongside this, I study housing insecurity, plumbing poverty, and the ethics of GeoAI, always asking how data and infrastructure simultaneously reflect and reproduce systemic inequities.

I am a broadly trained methodologist, drawing on spatial analysis, GeoAI, ethnography, cartography, and mixed methods to connect systemic injustice to lived experience — with the goal of informing more just policies, technologies, and communities. I am committed to research that reaches beyond the academy: through community data partnerships, public talks, and work that speaks directly to policy.

Recent publications appear in Progress in Human Geography, Canadian Geographies, Big Data & Society, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, and Cityscape. I am a collaborator on a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Grant and co-editor of an upcoming special issue on inclusive cities in Canadian Geographies.

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Education

Ph.D., Geography — University of Oregon, 2021
Dissertation: Disabling Environments: Interpolating Missing Environmental Features for Accessibility

M.S., Geography — Southern Illinois University, 2016

M.A., Sociology — Southern Illinois University, 2014

B.A., Peace Studies — Whitworth University, 2009