About Me
About Me: I am a fifth-year graduate student in the Department of Sociology∞ at the University of California - Irvine. My research interests include aging and the life course, social interaction and network dynamics, and demography. My dissertation research focuses on structural explanations of age-related differences in day-to-day social interaction. I work in Professor Carter Butts's∞ Networks, Computation, and Social Dynamics Lab (ncasd.org∞) where my work focuses on organizational responses to disasters, improvisation in disaster response, and relational event modeling of social interaction. This lab research is supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and the Office of Naval Research. I also teach urban demography as an adjunct lecturer at the University of Southern California. I recently received the prestigious Order of Merit Award∞ from the University of California - Irvine for outstanding service to Graduate students.