I am a political sociologist working as a Postdoctoral Associate in The Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science at the University of Miami. I completed my PhD in Sociology at Cornell University in May 2023.

My research uses mixed methodology to examine how economic and political forces use broad-based cultural ideas to stymie environmental protection efforts, and seeks to understand how we can bring about the social transformations needed to address the ecological and climate crises. Within this framework, I maintain several research streams looking at the question of the undue influence of powerful organizations and political elites to obstruct the transition to a more ethical and sustainable consumption system. My work has been published in Science and Public Policy, Climatic Change, and Communications, Earth & Environment and has been covered in The Conversation and Salon among others.