I study how space and time organize inequality and shape life chances. My substantive interests include health, neighborhood effects, welfare, immigration, and racial and ethnic stratification. Overall, I am interested in the institutional and social conditions that produce disadvantage over the life course.

My methodological interests include causal inference, machine learning, historical and archival research, and pure mathematics, specifically spectral graph theory. I am also interested in critical theory on space and territory.

I received my B.A. in Economics with a minor in Anthropology from Wellesley College, a historically women’s college outside of Boston. I was born into a Korean family in Takoma Park, Maryland, coincidentally known as “the Berkeley of the East,” grew up in Montgomery Village for the first part of my life, and then spent the remainder of it in Rockville, Maryland, where my entire family still lives.

Topics:

Inequality, health, welfare, immigration, racial and ethnic stratification, critical theory on space and territory