My research focuses on the relationships between power structures, neighborhood health effects, and the well-being of racialized communities. Specifically, I examine how structural drivers, through past and contemporary place-based policies and programs, distribute material resources and environmental hazards unevenly across neighborhoods. In turn, these unequal conditions shape community well-being over the life-course and across generations. Centering the experiences of communities of color in places where they live, work, and connect, I aim to conduct research that informs equitable neighborhood development as well as strategies to mitigate harmful environmental exposure.
My current projects investigate how place-based sociopolitical mechanisms, including disinvestment and gentrification, interact with exposure to environmental hazards, such as wildfire PM2.5 and oil and gas development, to jointly shape perinatal and cardiovascular outcomes.
