She holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of Michigan. She is a historian of race and gender in modern U.S. culture with an emphasis on African American and Latinx history and social movements. Her research centers on black-brown racial formation, community development, and mobilizations for racial justice in Boston in the 1960s and 1970s. She lives with her partner and their three children (ages 1, 5, and 9) in Cambridge, MA.