I am an interdisciplinary community-engaged scholar and licensed attorney. I am also an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Welfare at UC Berkeley and the Director of the Center for the Advanced Study of Aging Services at UC Berkeley. My work engages diverse communities and partners that builds from prior experience as a civil rights attorney, community organizer, social worker, and nonprofit leader. As a civil rights attorney, I focused on discrimination, healthcare, and transformative justice and oversaw a national LGBTQ+ Elder Law Project. I subsequently served as a founding executive director of SAGE Metro Detroit (now MiGen), which focused on services and advocacy for/with LGBTQ+ same-gender-loving older adults in the Detroit Metro area. I then served as an RWJF Health Policy Fellow in U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin's office and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). My research foregrounds equitable aging across three areas: long-term care and caregiving, workplace rights, and LGBTQ+ issues. I am currently working on a book about reimagining street-level bureaucracy and conflicting rights in nursing homes.

FACULTY PROFILE CENTER FOR THE ADVANCED STUDY OF AGING SERVICES