​I'm currently a sociology PhD candidate at the University of Washington. My work, generally, focuses on describing how race matters in population health. This includes: (1) explicating how and why racial disparities in health outcomes are generated, rather than just quantifying the size of said inequalities; (2) connecting broad, structural features that are related to race (e.g., mass incarceration; residential segregation) to health outcomes/disparities; and (3) examining how other social-locational attributes that organize US society intersect with race to stratify health. My dissertation project reflects this agenda, and describes how race and education combine to shape health in the US.  In addressing these topics, I rely on machine/statistical learning methodologies and techniques for drawing causal(-like) inferences from non-experimental data.