My research cuts across health, law, and policy fields. My current book, Birthzillas and Betrayal, is under contract with the University of Kansas Press!

Teaching is my first love. Here you’ll find some ways I gamify my courses to keep students engaged and my favorite resources for reaching public law and American Politics and policy.

Based on my dissertation and in preparation for the book coming out next year, Birthzillas: The Podcast centers birth stories and what they can teach us about birth culture and maternal health in the United States.

The Civic Flame, is a podcast dedicated to exploring the US Constitution and how it is (or isn’t) working for American democracy today.

As a member of the Commonwealth’s Commission on the Status of Women and the Worcester Area League of Women Voters, I show up for the Bay State and turn scholarship into practice.