š Education:
Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology University of California Berkeley and San Francisco, Berkeley, California – 2014.Ā BA. in Psychology with a minor in Spanish University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California – 2006. South Torrance High School Torrance, California – 2002.
šØāš« Positions / Training:
Assistant Professor of Clinical Population and Public Health Sciences – 2021-present NIDA Diversity Postdoctorate, Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA – 2019-2021 Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA – 2019-2021. Postdoctoral Researcher – 2015-2017 Faculty of Health Science, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa – 2015-2017. Research Associate – 2014-2015 Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA – 2014-2015.
š Honors and Awards:
Research Award – 2021-2023, Research Award – 2019-2021, Exemplary Cross-Field Scholarship for Innovative and Interdisciplinary Article, Scholar and Research Grantee, Advanced Respiratory Research for Equity (AiRE), HIV/AIDS, Substance Abuse, and Trauma Training Program Scholar, UC Los Angeles Semel Institute, General Anthropology Division Prize, Washington D.C.
š Teaching:
Didactic Teaching:
University of Southern California 2022-ongoing: Preventive Medicine 587: Qualitative Research Methods in Public Health (working example and methods course), 2021: Preventive Medicine 587: Qualitative Research Methods in Public Health.
Other Teaching Experiences:
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Co-Instructor, University of California, Berkeley Anthropology R5B: Reading and Composition in Anthropology – 2014 Anthropology 3: Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology – 2013 Special Topics in Medical Anthropology – 2010