I’m an anthropologist and medical, public health sciences, and law and political economy researcher. I’m also an assistant professor of anthropology and interdisciplinary studies at Miami Dade College, fellow in internal medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine, and Regenstrief Institute scientist.

My writing elucidates how law and political economy figure health, housing, labor, education, and how people secure care, housing security, and food security, recover from injury and illness, and advocate for change. I have written about how drug users are fighting to save one another's lives and end the War on Drugs, making life-saving care into thriving politics; the false promises of for-profit federal consent decree police reforms and the case for grassroots politics, not technocrat contractors, being our best chance to reduce police violence and end carceral governance; how ‘informal’ miners in Southern Africa are criminalized by misguided efforts that pose policing and state and corporate violence as solutions to traumas miners and mining communities endure, not sources of violence, illness, and injury in and around mines; and why migrant rights organizations and movements should help migrants access land and the city, not just secure their rights to live in state territory, because, to many migrants, the “right to the city” and to acesss land to live or work, and immigrant rights, are the same. I have also written about anthropological practice and pedagogy and how students can carry out science fiction anthropology to investigate how people and societies decide that some things are possible and others are not.

My work’s been cited in academic research and in popular publications such as The Nation. And I’ve been interviewed-mostly about police reform and harm reduction-by The New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, NPR, CNN, Boston Weekly, Sacramento Bee, Kentucky Center for Investigative Journalism & WDRB TV.

I teach or have taught introductory and cultural anthropology, sci fi anthropology, medical and psychological anthropology, interdisciplinary classes focusing on food justice and urban farming, science and/in culture, and trials, tribunals, and great debates. For college instructors, I have led workshops on teaching ‘policy across the curriculum’ and ‘debate across the curriculum.’

Contact me here or via LinkedIn or Bluesky. My latest writings are posted to Academia.edu and ResearchGate.