I am a pediatrician, public health advocate, and scholar. I write and teach on the relationship between structural racism, inequity and health.

I work clinically, teach nationally, and have a scholarly focus on the child and public health impacts of structural inequality. I partner with community-based and non-profit organizations, public health departments, and academic centers to understand and address forms of social inequality that contribute to poor and inequitable health outcomes. I lead initiatives to advance perinatal equity and justice at Public Works Alliance, an organization working to re-imagine where healing happens and who is paid to do the work.

I graduated cum laude with a B.A. in Africana Studies and Health from the University of Notre Dame. I earned a M.D. at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and completed my pediatric residency at University of California, San Francisco with a focus on community advocacy. In 2017, I graduated from the Commonwealth Fund Mongan Minority Health Policy Fellowship at Harvard University’s School of Public Health, earning an M.P.H.