I am an Associate Professor of Public Health and the Director of the Disability and Wellness Research Collaborative. The Disability and Wellness Research Collaborative conducts research using a justice-oriented, experience-informed approach. We engage in problem-driven inquiry guided by values of equity and justice, beginning with concerns grounded in lived experience, community priorities, and structural inequities. Our approach follows an experience-to-analysis framework that is question-driven, not hypothesis-bound.

We critically apply statistical methods to examine patterns of exclusion, resilience, and disparity. For us, data is a tool in pursuit of liberation, not surveillance. Grounded in critical disability studies and transformative research paradigms, our work emphasizes reflexivity, intersectionality, and the pursuit of structural change through research.

Our research is deeply informed by partnerships with disabled people, advocates, and community organizations. These collaborations shape our research questions, interpretation of findings, and strategies for sharing knowledge in accessible and meaningful ways.

We are equally committed to mentoring the next generation of scholars through training that values lived experience, critical inquiry, and justice-centered research. Students in our lab learn to approach data as a tool for advocacy and transformation, not just academic discovery. We are currently accepted students into our lab.

Research Interests:

• Structural inequities in access to health and social care for disabled and neurodivergent people
• Statistical and participatory methods for justice-oriented public health research
• Social inclusion, community participation, and interpersonal relationships as health-promoting factors
• Autism, neurodivergence, and intersecting marginalized identities
• Housing, employment, and other social drivers of health among disabled people