I am a Ph.D. student in Political Science at Columbia University. My research interests are in political theory, primarily marxism and feminism. Within marxist theory, I am most interested in value-form analysis.

At Johns Hopkins University, I received an M.A. in Philosophy and a B.A. in both Political Science and Philosophy. I also minored in Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies. As a Woodrow Wilson Scholar, I spent a few years studying the consent standard in Anglo-American rape law. I learned how over-reliance on consent can obscure political and sexual inequities. When such inequities manifest themselves in the conditions under which consent is given, consent is no longer a genuine expression of autonomy. The merely formal justice of the consent standard must be complemented by justice in the more basic institutions of society.