Experience

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  University Of Vermont

  • Assistant Professor Of Sociology
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  University of Vermont

  • Burlington, Vermont, United States

  • Assistant Professor of Sociology

    • Aug 2023 - Present
    • Burlington, Vermont, United States

    I study global health organizations, social movements, and their struggles over scientific knowledge. I received my Ph.D. in Sociology from Boston University in August of 2022 and am currently a Hecht-Levi Postdoctoral Fellow in Global Infectious Disease Ethics at the Johns Hopkins University Ber...

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  Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics

  • Baltimore, Maryland, United States

  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Global Infectious Disease Bioethics

    • Aug 2022 - Aug 2023
    • Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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  R2H (Right to Health) Action

  • Founder, Co-Organizer

    • Mar 2020 - Aug 2023

    We are a grassroots movement of tens of thousands of experts, health workers, and activists in all 50 states. Sparked by the 2019 Coronavirus pandemic, our goal is to take action to repeal and replace deadly policies that cause cycles of pandemics that disproportionately impact the already poor a...

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  Boston University

  • Boston

  • PhD Student - Sociology

    • Mar 2016 - Aug 2022
    • Boston

    I'm interested in studying strategic action fields, social movements, transnational organizations, global health policy and financing as a means of better characterizing the growing movement for the right to health globally.

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  Boston Network for International Development (B...

  • Greater Boston Area

  • Executive Director

    • Mar 2017 - Jan 2020
    • Greater Boston Area

    BNID's purpose is to serve as a point of connection and support for groups and individuals in the Boston area who are concerned with issues of international development and global justice. I lead the day-to-day activities of this 5,000 member organization including overseeing all programs, ma...

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  Harvard Medical School

  • Greater Boston Area

  • Research Assistant, Lancet Commission on Reframing NCDs and Injuries for the ...

    • Apr 2016 - Oct 2016
    • Greater Boston Area

    I supported research efforts for the Lancet Commission on Noncommunicable Diseases and Injuries (NCDIs) for the Poorest Billion. Specifically, I focused on the history of the social construction of the NCDI category within WHO and researched the current discourse and framing of NCDIs amongst glob...

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  Partners In Health

  • United States
  • Hospitals and Health Care
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Senior Strategist for Community Organizing

    • Aug 2014 - Apr 2016

    I situated grassroots community organizing as a mission-critical strategic goal and programmatic area of work by creating and growing the PIH Engage program. PIH Engage is building the right to health movement by recruiting, training, and enabling teams of dedicated volunteer community organizers. These teams drive year-long campaigns focused on building the power to advance the right to health.- Grew PIH Engage from a mere concept to more than 90 strong, volunteer-led teams with over 4,000 active members within college campuses, professional communities, and networks of friends around the world.- Developed a business model that allowed the overall budget of PIH Engage to expand to nearly $400k in expenses and generated more than $700k in annual grassroots campaign revenue.- Orchestrated the nonprofit merger between FACE AIDS (student-driven global health organization) and PIH Engage, successfully enabling the FACE AIDS chapters to integrate into the broader PIH campaigns.- Built relationships with a network of global health and social justice advocacy organizations, and paved the way for new Partners In Health-led grassroots advocacy campaigns.

  • Community Engagement Coordinator

    • Oct 2011 - Aug 2014

    We created a community organizing strategy that builds leadership around the common idea that the poor deserve quality health care, strengthens community around that leadership, and draw world-changing power from that community.We sought to organize current PIH supporters to raise funds, critically analyze global health issues, and advocate on behalf of the poor and marginalized.Through this work, we aim to strengthen a movement for health and social justice that universalizes the notion that the poor deserve quality health care.

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  GlobeMed

  • 620 Library Place, Evanston IL 60208

  • Executive Director

    • May 2009 - Aug 2011
    • 620 Library Place, Evanston IL 60208

    Successfully led GlobeMed through a period of rapid programmatic, institutional, and financial growth that cemented the organization as the premiere student-driven organization advancing a social movement for global health and social justice.- Grew GlobeMed from 17 to 46 university-based chapters...

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  GlobeMed at Northwestern University

  • President

    • Sep 2007 - May 2009

    Worked to build the GlobeMed Chapter at Northwestern University from 15 student volunteers to over 45 engaged members. Under my leadership, the chapter raised over $12,000 to support innovative projects at their health partner, the HOPE Center in Ho, Ghana.

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  Providence Medical Center

  • Student Researcher

    • Jun 2007 - Sep 2007

    Worked to develop a polychromatic flow cytometry assay to monitor immune response to clinical trial cancer therapies.