About Me

I am a researcher who examines individual, community, and system factors that shape health with a focus on comprehensive, coordinated reproductive health and behavioral health. My work prioritizes partnerships with practitioners and programs that support data-driven decision-making.

I am particularly interested in how supportive services and relationships during critical periods like adolescence and pregnancy can increase protective factors, mitigate the risks of adversity and stress, and support dignity and agency in individual decision-making.

I use my quantitative training and experience to conduct evaluations and to support data collection, data management, and capacity building for monitoring, improvement, and evaluation purposes. Increasingly, I integrate mixed methods to develop a rich understanding of program processes, outcomes, and impact and to communicate findings to practitioners, advocates, and decision-makers.

I bring a combination of research and direct service experience that supports a comprehensive approach. After working as a community-based mental health case manager in Missouri and a patient navigator in Illinois as part of a program to reduce potentially avoidable Emergency Department use, I supported perinatal mental health research at UNC’s Center for Women’s Mood Disorders and served as program manager for a perinatal psychiatric access program.

My recent work includes an ongoing evaluation partnership with Boston Healthy Start Initiative, leading the learning agenda of the In/Tend Incubator, supporting the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) in devlopment of of Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) outcomes dashboard, and analysis of the Opportunity Index. I also provide training and technical assistance to teen pregnancy prevention programs through one-on-one engagement, facilitating peer learning, webinars, and resource development.