Engaged Work + Collaborative Leadership

I am the Director of the Knapp Social Science Center at Wellesley College. I am also Co-Founder and Co-Director (with Laura Grattan) of the Anti-Carceral Co+Laboratory (ACC).

At Wellesley, I have also organized a sweeping range of talks, webinars, speaker series, and panel discussions, including many events organized in collaboration with Wellesley students, alums, and faculty.

Dreaming Abolition, Co-Creating Abolitionist Knowledge in Greater Boston (with Laura Grattan)

  • A convening dedicating to exploring how scholar-activists and organizers in Massachusetts can reimagine freedom, justice, safety, and education beyond prisons

  • Co-sponsored by Anti-Carceral Co+Laboratory and the Project on Public Leadership & Action at Wellesley College and supported by the Mellon Foundation

Aftershock Screening + Panel Discussion (with Lilly Marcelin)

  • A KSSC event that examines the Black maternal health crisis in the United States

Resisting the Carceral State, Co-Creating Abolitionist Futures

  • A curated speaker series dedicated to spotlighting community-rooted research and abolition organizing

  • Co-organized with Laura Grattan and sponsored by PPLA

Teaching + Mentorship

At Wellesley, I have taught a range of cutting-edge, originally designed interdisciplinary courses that contribute to the WGST Department’s intersectional, transnational, and abolition/anti-carceral feminist studies curricular offerings, including courses like Anti-Carceral Feminisms, Gender, Race, and & the Carceral State and Love and Intimacy. 

I love collaborating with students and in all my courses and through my work facilitating undergraduate research programs through the KSSC, I prioritize mentoring and utilize pedagogical and coaching strategies that emphasize inclusion, accessibility, belonging, and community care.