Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles
I study the relationship between criminal legal contact and inequality across various domains, including crime, health, families, employment, welfare, and voting. Across these areas, I use diverse methodological approaches for data collection and analysis. I am particularly interested in understanding how mobile phones can be used as social science tools and how technology can facilitate data access, replication, and transparency.
Alongside my research, one of my primary projects is helping to create PrisonPandemic, a digital archive of personal stories contributed by people incarcerated in California prisons, jails, and immigration detention facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic.