I completed my education in social work, gender studies, and sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Columbia University, and the University of California, San Francisco.

You can find my writing published in scholarly journals, The Nation, and Parapraxis.

I am an experienced educator, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in sociology and social work and providing continuing education for clinicians and emerging health professionals. I particularly enjoy teaching about the sociology of gender, politics of the family, health justice and equity, and the social and structural influences on health and wellbeing.

Currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Osher Center for Integrative Health at the University of California, San Francisco, my research includes studies about the biomedicalization of perinatal health, approaches to mental health integration in perinatal care, improving working conditions for health professionals, and expanding access to community midwifery care. I maintain a small psychotherapy practice in Oregon.