I am a PhD candidate in the Political Science department at the University of California, Irvine specializing in International Relations and Political Theory; I also hold a Graduate Feminist Emphasis Certificate from UCI's department of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies. I received a B.A. in Psychology with a minor in Women's Studies from The Mississippi University for Women in 2018 and a M.A. in Political Science from the University of Memphis in 2020. My current research projects explore expressions of faith and care as modes of resistance to the entangled legacies of environmental, colonial, and neoliberal violence using auto-ethnographic, relational, and narrative methodologies. I aim to broaden the methodological tools used in the classroom to incorporate artistic and embodied modes of narration and expression, allowing students to connect their daily lives in personal and unique ways to political phenomena. I strive to cultivate respect and appreciation for the natural environment in my pedagogy through both course materials and hands-on engagement. I am a settler currently living on the ancestral homelands of the Ajchachemen and Tongva peoples. In my free time, you can catch me doing community theatre, at the beach, hiking, and hanging out with my family and pets.
