I am an Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford Graduate School of Business.

I study how organizations and individuals engage with the concept of “diversity”, especially as it pertains to race and ethnicity. I’m interested in contestation over what diversity means, how organizations are portraying and deploying diversity claims, what value is attributed to individuals’ “contributions to diversity”, and what all of this means for social stratification and inequality.

One stream of my research focuses on how organizational diversity initiatives shape individuals’ labor market outcomes and careers. Another stream of research examines how evaluative practices contribute to inequality in markets and organizations more generally. A third line of work explores the aggregation and interpretation of population statistics on race and ethnicity. I use a variety of quantitative methods and data sources, but have a soft spot for experiments.

I received my PhD in Sociology from Princeton University, where I was also trained in the Office of Population Research. I completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Inequality in America Initiative at Harvard University.