I’m an anthropologist and medical, public health sciences, social medicine, and law and political economy researcher. I hold appointments to faculties at Oxford University and MDC. I’m also a fellow at the American Bar Foundation.

My writing elucidates how advocacy, law, regulation and governance, and political economy figure health, housing, and environment. I collaborate with a range of academics, practitioners, and policymakers to develop new practices and policy changes that people can employ to improve health, secure housing, access care, and advocate for change.

My work’s been cited in academic research and in popular publications such as The Nation and the Chicago Tribune,. And I’ve been interviewed-mostly about environmental health, harm reduction, and police reform-by The New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, NPR, CNN, Boston Weekly, Sacramento Bee, Kentucky Center for Investigative Journalism, Chicago Reader, and local television stations such as WDRB TV & ABC7.

My current work explores how to improve care, treatment, and housing security for people with cognitive impairment and other disabilities living in nursing homes and community settings; how advocacy and rights-based approaches can advance human and environmental health in the U.S. and globally; and innovative ways to deploy and fund family and professional advocacy and legal aid systems. My latest writing, which addresses dementia care and prevention, will appear in Alzheimer’s & Dementia, the world’s top-ranked neurodegenerative disease journal, in October 2026.

I have previously 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 the politics of algorithmic governance can be recoded;  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.

I teach or have taught medical and psychological anthropology, introductory & cultural anthropology, social medicine, regulatory law & policy, sci fi anthropology, and interdisciplinary classes (e.g. food justice & urban farming, science as/in culture, and experimental humanities). For college instructors, I have created and led pedagogy workshops on ‘policy across the curriculum,’ ‘debate across the curriculum,’ and ‘community-engaged research.’ And I have mentored and advised numerous graduate and undergraduate students.

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