I am a professor, researcher, and consultant for social change.
My expertise lies in capacity building and community engagement for organizational and community-level change. As an interdisciplinary feminist scholar, I teach and research leadership for social justice at the intersection of race, class, gender, and place. I also partner with social justice leaders as a consultant to facilitate transformation for their teams, organizations, and networks.
Teaching + Research
How can everyday people be change agents and co-creators of knowledge and action for social justice?
Whether at the organizational, local, or national level, this question runs a throughline in my teaching and research. I teach courses at New York University that address this question and more. In 2020, I created the Story Circle Interview Method, a participatory data collection technique for shifting power and leadership in qualitative research. My current research examines Puerto Rico’s 'rescued schools' movement, exploring how local communities are reclaiming and repurposing closed school buildings as vital sites of civic life and collective power.
