Kate is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at The University of California San Francisco and a Research Associate II at Comagine Health in Portland, OR. Kate has two main areas of research. First, her research explores questions about financial stress, mental health, crisis services, and suicide. She volunteers as a crisis text counselor and is interested in understanding, improving, and developing telemental health crisis services. In her second area of research, she studies injection drug use, fentanyl, integrative and complementary care for chronic pain, and health policy. All her work is motivated by a desire to understand how economic marginalization shapes health and health services experiences. Kate received her Master's in Public Health from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University in 2017. Kate is actively involved in her research community as a Social Determinants of Health initiative Scholar at Portland State University and the founder of the Network of Early Career Researchers in Suicide and Self-harm Qualitative Methods Group. Kate works and lives in Portland, OR.