Publications & Ordinances
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Advancing Abortion Justice
Doctoral dissertation for the Heller School of Social Policy at Brandeis University. This deeply personal ethnography traces the story of abortion clinic loss, restoration, and bans in a Midwestern community from Roe's promise to Dobbs's aftermath.
This research contributes to abortion scholarship by placing into conversation the theoretical frameworks of gender-based violence and contentious politics. Contentious politics explains the mechanisms of harm, while gender-based violence conceptualizes and motivates the study of harm and guides the consideration of possible responses. These approaches aggregate multiple layers of analysis to understand how anti-abortion violence from movements and governments produces physical, sexual, psychological, economic, cultural, and social harm. Findings from this study offer a bold vision for abortion policy.
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Teaching Social Movements with a Sustained Simulation of Police–Protester Contention
This case study reviews a social movement course that centered on a 10-week simulation of a contemporary contentious event in Washington, DC, involving six movement organizations and four police agencies. To our knowledge, it is the first classroom simulation of a Trump-era police–protester contentious episode or of any political science simulation that places an episode of insurrection in the contemporary United States.
Published in PS: Political Science & Politics
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Reproductive Equity and TRAP Laws
MPA thesis and writing sample for doctoral applications, this paper uses statistical analysis to examine the cost variables of time, travel, childcare, and lost wages to test for equity in legislation. Presented at MPSA in 2018.
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Accelerating Economic Equity and Justice
Quantitative analysis of poverty rates by race, age, gender, and parenting status show that combining Universal Basic Income with generational wealth-building Kids’ Futures Accounts to form a Just Futures Fund would drastically reduce both income and wealth disparities. Prepared for the Economic Security Project; presented at the Ethics of UBI in a Changing Economy, King’s College London, April 24, 2020.
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Misdirected Housing Supports
Combines data from SIPP and the IRS to estimate the benefits of the mortgage interest deduction (MID) program by race to examine how MID unjustly subsidizes high-income households and expands racial disparities. Offers policy alternatives to support just housing initiatives. Prepared for the National Low Income Housing Coalition.
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Indiana Cannot Survive On $7.25
Multivariable regression results show that ALICE residents in Indiana are significantly represented in the states’ public assistance rates, demonstrating a gap in welfare policy. Produced as a final project for an MPA course on research methods; graduate research poster presented at MPSA 2016.
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City of South Bend Ordinances
Lead policy analyst, bill co-author, primary legislative coordinator, and community outreach for Mayor Pete Buttigieg.
Rental Safety Verification Program, Ord. No. 10644-19 , § I, 2-25-19
Amendments to the Regulation of Animals, Ord. No. 10660-19 , § XI, 7-22-19