I have always felt most at home in the in-between spaces — between cultures, between languages, between disciplines, between geographies. I am captivated by the human stories that live in and linger with these liminal spaces. The field of anthropology and the practice of writing are how I pay attention, engage with, and help support others to access and express these stories, which often live deep within our bodies.

A West-Coast native of the US — coastal San Francisco, California + the high desert of Bend, Oregon — life and work have taken me to North Carolina, Colorado, New York City, West Africa, and Brazil. My PhD research led me to Sweden in 2018, and love unexpectedly kept me here. I now live in Malmö with my husband and daughter.

A medical anthropologist and feminist STS scholar, I am an Assistant Professor of Medical Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen Centre for Medical Science and Technology Studies. I hold a PhD in Anthropology from Princeton University and a BA from Duke University. I am currently writing my first book, an ethnography of experimental neuroprosthetics.

Beyond my academic work, I am a creative nonfiction writer and essayist, with words published in The Rumpus, Electric Literature, and Entropy. I also teach writing workshops that integrate yoga asana and mindfulness to write from/through/into the body. In 2020 I founded WITHIN, a somatic writing method, seasonal workshop series, and global community.

Movement and creativity are my pulse. Gravity pulls me to single-track running trails and open-water ocean swims. My mat is the space where I learn how to be, to slow down, to linger.

Above all else, I thrive upon human connection and believe in the power of a story well told.