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.

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.

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

I am an assistant professor of sociology and social work at the University of Portland and a research associate 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, expanding access to community midwifery care, and, most currently, unionizing among nurse-midwives in the U.S. I maintain a small psychotherapy practice in Oregon.