I'm a sociologist at Princeton University, where I manage a research project on gun violence at the School of Public and International Affairs. My research aims to identify, define, and describe connections between the criminal legal system on the one hand and public health on the other. Previous and ongoing work has examined the role of jails in the prescription opioid crisis, the spread of COVID-19 inside NYC jail facilities at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the effect of police presence on crime, and the effect of government spending on community violence. My research has been published in the Annual Review of Criminology, RSF: Russel Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, and Socius. I'm a phi beta kappa graduate of Brown University and earned a Ph.D. in sociology from Columbia University.