I am an assistant professor of science, technology, innovation, and racial justice in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society (SFIS) at Arizona State University. In addition to this appointment, I am also the Director of the Digital Health and Racial Justice Lab, where I mentor graduate and undergraduate students who are interested in developing a racial justice framework in their analysis of health technology, and a Faculty Research Affiliate in the Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center (SIRC). Situated within the fields of communication studies, science and technology studies (STS), and critical digital health studies, my research examines how innovative digital health technologies are used to govern, foster, and optimize our capacity for life, and it considers how this capacity is undermined when these technologies surveil, racialize, and otherwise marginalize already-vulnerable patient groups.
Prior to joining SFIS, I worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Michigan Medical School in the Department of Cardiology. I was a member of the WIRED-L Center, which brings together health care providers and researchers to design a mobile health (mHealth) intervention aiming to improve heart health in the Flint and Ann Arbor communities in Michigan. During my year spent at the WIRED-L Center, I was the lead author of three manuscripts exploring how mHealth interventions should center racial justice and health equity as design aspirations. The WIRED-L Center is supported by a grant from the American Heart Association.
I received my Ph.D. in Media, Culture, and Communication from NYU, my M.A. in African American Studies from UCLA, and my B.A. in Comparative Literature from USC.
A product of Los Angeles, my favorite things are tacos and Dodger Stadium.