About
I am a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. I broadly study racial capitalism and the (re)production of systems of power. My scholarship explores areas including racial stratification, social inequality, law, and education.
I am currently working on an ethnographic and archival study of the A Better Chance organization (ABC). ABC, a still-operating organization, was founded in 1963 to select and train nonwhite children to integrate white public and private schools in the US. My study examines: 1) how nonwhite children have been selected and trained to integrate white schools from the 1960s to the present, 2) the historical and sociopolitical contexts in which ABC has emerged and flourished, and 3) the economic and sociopolitical interests ABC has served.