Research & evaluation
Inquiry accountable to lived experience.
I use qualitative and mixed methods to study how people experience programs, institutions, trauma, leadership, learning, and change—and to help organizations understand what their work is actually doing.
Research practice
My research moves between interpretation and use.
I conduct interviews, participant observation, focus groups, photovoice and other arts-based inquiry, program evaluation, literature reviews, and organizational research. I am particularly attentive to what conventional measures fail to register: embodiment, relationship, power, access, contradiction, and the knowledge people make from experience.
My doctoral work, Archiving the Trauma Diaspora: Affective Artifacts in the Higher Education Arts Classroom, examined artistic and material practices in the redress of trauma. That inquiry continues through my scholarship, book work, curricula, and public programs.
Selected experience
Research across institutional settings
UCLA DataX & Gender Studies
Postdoctoral research at the intersection of critical data studies, gender studies, trauma, disability, and artistic practice, mentored by Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble.
Barger Leadership Institute
A qualitative programmatic assessment of student narratives about leadership development, including collaboratively developed interview instruments, 77 interview events, participant observation, focus-group work, and photovoice essays.
Fetzer Institute
Research and strategy work on personal and social transformation, including a literature review and conceptual work across epistemological, personal, and societal change.
Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education
Organizational and conference work conducted in close collaboration with the executive director, including research, documentation, and institutional narrative.