About Me

I am a doctoral candidate and qualitative researcher in the Sociology Department at NYU. I study the construction and performance of expertise at the intersection of law and medicine, with a specific focus on women’s sexual health. I am also a graduate employee adjunct for undergraduate courses such as Law & Society and Miscarriages of Justice in the Law and Society program at NYU.

Prior to joining the NYU Sociology Department, I obtained my J.D. from Columbia Law School, practiced law at a large firm, and clerked for the Honorable Analisa Torres in the District Court for the Southern District of New York. I bring this practical experience to bear in my research and firmly believe that the practice of law, and well as legislation and policymaking, should be informed by the realities of everyday practice as well as empirical research on the patterns of social interaction that shape the way we interact with the institutions that shape our lives.

Outside of my legal and sociological academic work, my interests include running, reading mystery novels, and spoiling my dog.

My Current Sociological Research Focuses On…	My Current Legal Research Focuses On…
* Collective knowledge production in social movement groups * Lay evaluations of technical expertise and experts in fields with uncertain means of credentialing * Distribution of responsibility in the doctor-patient relationship, particularly in the management of chronic pain	* The role of judges as gatekeepers of technical expertise, especially medical expertise *The role of patient expectations of the standard of care in medical malpractice and other forms of legal recourse for iatrogenic injury

Scroll down to access my published work, view my non-academic publications on women’s and sexual health media platforms, or listen to The Retrievals, a 2020 podcast by Serial Productions and the New York Times, which explores pain and dismissal of women in medicine and in which I was featured.

Academic Publications

In It for the Long Haul: The American Legal System’s Failure to Protect Patients with Persistent COVID-19
Symptoms from Gender Discrimination in Healthcare

Journal of Health and Biomedical Law, Vol. 18 No. 1 (2022)

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Cutting out the Middleman: Empirically Testing the Continued Applicability of the Learned Intermediary
Rule in the Age of Direct-to-Consumer Advertising of Prescription Pharmaceuticals

Quinnipiac Health Law Journal, Vol. 24 No. 4 (2021)

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Miss Diagnosis: Gendered Injustice in Medical Malpractice Law

Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 39 No. 2 (2020)

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Media & Other Publications

How Can I Help Protect Reproductive Rights Under a Trump Administration? (with Greta Bollmeier)

Real Talk, 2025

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Understanding Women’s Pain: An Unsettling Reality Exposed by ‘The Retrievals’ Podcast’ (with Emily Tran)
Pelvic Health and Rehabilitation Center Blog, 2024

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Abortion Travel Bans Proposed in Multiple States (with Greta Bollmeier)

Real Talk, 2024

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What Do Fishermen Have to Do with Healthcare?

Real Talk, 2024

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Medical Misogyny: The Freedom to Choose

Real Talk, 2024

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Medical Misogyny: The Default Male Body

Real Talk, 2024