About me
As a first-generation college students from Spokane, Washington, I started my academic journey at sixteen, thanks to a program that provided free community college to high school students. It was there at Spokane Falls Community College (SFCC) that I took my first Sociology of Gender course, igniting my sociological imagination.
After completing my A.A., I moved to Portland, Oregon where I studied Sociology at Washington State University, Vancouver on full financial aid. Upon graduating, I was awarded the first ever Outstanding Women’s Studies Minor Award for my research investigating the gendered and racialized wage gap in the United States.
During this time, I also worked full-time managing a salad food-cart in Portland, Oregon.
In 2018, I received my M.S. in Sociology from Portland State University where I was awarded the Outstanding Master’s Student Award. Under the advisement of Dr. Emily Fitzgibbons Shafer, my thesis used in-depth interviews to investigate the experiences of women and non-binary young adults using the dating app Tinder.
Now, as a Ph.D. Candidate at UCI, I continue to build on this line of inquiry, using quantitative methods to examine the complex relationship between gender and digital inequalities.