I am an Assistant Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law, where I teach courses in Constitutional Law, Labor Law, Local Government Law, and Property Law.

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My work focuses on social mobility and multiracial democracy in the United States. My writing on these and related topics have appeared or are forthcoming in the Cardozo Law Review, Mississippi Law Journal, William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, Political Theory, and in my doctoral dissertation, The Spirit of Caste: Recasting the History of Civil Rights, which received the American Political Science Association's 2024 Edward S. Corwin Award for Best Doctoral Dissertation in the Field of Public Law. 

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I was previously a Drinan Visiting Assistant Professor at Boston College Law School, and I jointly received​​ ​my J.D. and my Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University. My professional lives prior to academia were based Chicago, my hometown, where I worked in civil rights and community justice and as a special education teacher in Chicago Public Schools.

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