Social Studies and African American Studies

I am a scholar of and an advocate for reproductive justice–the right to have or not have a child and the right to parent a child in a safe and healthy environment. Pursuing degrees in Social Studies and African American Studies at Harvard, I study how vulnerable women, particularly Black women, are systematically denied these rights.

My honors senior thesis is the first scholarly examination of monetary reparations to redress reproductive injustices. In D.C., I am interviewing low-income Black mothers who received guaranteed income to determine how these programs impact recipient families.

Carol K. Pforzheimer Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute

My archival research in the Schlesinger Library has been supported by the Radcliffe Institute. I am investigating the papers of Pauli Murray, Florynce Kennedy, and Angela Davis for my senior thesis on reparations for reproductive injustices.

Jane Coolidge & Walter Muir Whitehill Prize Recipient in Lowell House

Upon Walther Muir Whitehill’s death in 1978, the Lowell Senior Common Room established a prize in the Whitehills’ honor for a junior who as a scholar and a citizen best represents the tradition of the humane letters and arts. I was awarded this prize in May of 2024.