Research

Using multidisciplinary and mixed-methods approaches, ​I explore how institutions, policies, and systems affect minoritized communities. My goal is to engage residents, stakeholders, and academic audiences in my work to help inform systemic change and support existing community assets, especially related to racial equity.

Public Scholarship

Public scholarship includes "collaborating and creating knowledge with community stakeholders throughout the research process, with a goal of impacting the public good". Some examples of public scholarship below:

Immigration policy & COVID-19: Implications of the public charge rule  (with Roxy Lawrence and Elle Yang) 

Indiana’s black death rates from COVID-19: Institutional sources of disparity

Disparities in black homeownership in Marion County: Implications for the racial wealth gap (with Rachell Peña, Brendan Bow, Jacob Purcell, Elle Yang)

Rental trends in Marion County (with Elle Yang and 

Eviction trends in Marion County (with Kelsie Stringham-Marquis and Krystal Gibson)
 
With and for state and local partners:
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Coalition for Homelessness Prevention and Intervention (CHIP) 
Recovery housing in Indianapolis: Trends among referral services and housing providers (with Kelsie Stringham-Marquis and Maddie Eggold)

Martin Luther King Community Center
Neighborhood empowerment in Mid-North Indianapolis  (with Maggie Eggold and Precious Little)

IndyEast Promise Zone/John Boner Neighborhood Centers
IndyEast Promise Zone Baseline Report (with Elle Yang)

Indiana Arts Commission
The Creative Economy in Indiana

Indiana Lt. Governor's Office
​Indiana's Bicentennial Visioning Project 
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​Center for Research on Inclusion and Social Policy (CRISP)

I founded CRISP to conduct research to be responsive to our community, to provide information about local trends in social policy and inequity, and to meaningfully engage students in community-engaged research experiences.