I am interested in inequality and stratification, and more specifically, how space, place, and stress write inequities into marginalized bodies and lead to unequal life outcomes. Related to this, I am interested in racial/ethnic minority and immigrant health, early-age and late-life mortality differentials due to allostatic load and environmental hazards, and critical theory on space and territory, or how space-time creates a variety of regimes—each unique to a single individual. In terms of methods, I’m interested in both causal inference and machine learning, as well as some interest in pure mathematics, specifically graph theory.

I received my B.A. in Economics with a minor in Anthropology from Wellesley College, a small traditionally women’s college outside of Boston. I was born into a Korean family in Takoma Park, MD (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, MD, where my entire family still lives.