Introduction

I am a sociologist interested in educational inequality, neighborhood effects, child poverty, race and ethnicity, stratification, and research methods.

I did my undergraduate work at Stanford, where I worked with Susan Olzak, and my graduate work at Harvard, where I worked with Christopher Jencks, Christopher Winship, and Katherine Newman and was a doctoral fellow at the Kennedy School of Government's Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy.

My hope is that my work will be informative and useful for those whose goal it is to help increase educational opportunities for the disadvantaged and to reduce the negative effects of poverty.

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