EDUCATION
2015— Ph.D. Geography, Graduate Center, City University of New York, with Graduate Certificates in Geographic Information Systems & American Studies
2013-2015 Geography, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2013 B.A. Geography, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
PUBLICATIONS
Under Review (editor w/ Mat Keel), Special Issue: “Contemporary North American Police States” Environment & Planning D: Society and Space
In Preparation (w/ Mat Keel), “Introduction: Policing Crises, Contesting State Violence: Ferguson, Ayotzinapa, and (counter) topographies of Policing” Environment & Planning D: Society and Space
2015. Book Review: Spaces of Conflict, Sounds of Solidarity: Music, Race, and Spatial Entitlement in Los Angeles (U California Press, 2013) by Gaye Theresa Johnson. Urban Geography 36 (3) 463-465.
2012. “Bottled Promises: Regulating Bottled Water Consumption,” Journal of Politics & International Affairs 4(1): 33-46.
PRESENTATIONS (SELECT)
2016. Domestic Lawfare & The Constitutional ‘Patchwork’ of the Homeland Security State, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA
2016. Profiling, B/ordering, and the Political Work of Pedagogy, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA
2015.Standing Against Structural Racism and Color-blindness in the 21st Century, Invited Keynote Speaker, 1st Annual YWCA Stand Against Racism Event, Van Wert, Ohio
2015.Bringing Down the Hammer: Militarization, Social Reproduction, and the Destruction of the Home, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, IL (April 21-25)
2014. Criminalization, Neoliberal Poverty Governance and the War on Gangs in Los Angeles, Relational Poverty Network Annual Meeting, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2013. America’s Nicest City? The Contentious Politics of Care and Punishment for the Homeless in Columbus, OH (Poster), Undergraduate Research Forum, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
2013. Criminalizing Homelessness: Research Findings from Columbus, OH, Invited guest speaker for the OSU Honors and Scholars Center Social Issue Immersion Program
WORKSHOPS AND ADDITIONAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
2015. Antipode Institute for the Geographies of Justice, Johannesburg, South Africa
2015. Co-Organizer and facilitator, Race, Space, and Violence: Challenging Scholarly Praxis Workshop, The Public School, Oakland, CA (June 5-7)
2015. Workshop Participant, Intensive Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS), UCLA Geography Department
2012. Public Policy and International Affairs Junior Summer Fellowship, Gerald Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
