I am currently co-editing a book (with Hyeyoung Oh Nelson, PhD) titled Humanizing Qualitative Methods, confronting and grappling with how we center humanity and the embodied experiences of interdisciplinary researchers conducting qualitative methods. The book is expected to be published in late 2026 or early 2027.

With PSU’s Homelessness Research & Action Collaborative, we explored the impact of culturally-specific permanent supportive housing (PSH) for Black & Latine individuals experiencing homelessness, and the contextual factors that support or inhibit its implementation in the Portland Metro Area. Our report is published online through our funder, the National Alliance to End Homelessness.

I am exploring experiences of housing insecurity and health among Hispanic/Latine immigrant shared households in the Portland Metro area. This pilot was funded by Portland State University and the National Research Center on Hispanic Children & Families. Learn more about our research group here.

This ethnographic project examined the embodied health experiences of housing insecurity in changing neighborhoods, using a case study of a Hispanic/Latine immigrant neighborhood of Denver, CO. Read about this work in Journal of Family & Economic Issues & in Social Science & Medicine.

As part of an interdisciplinary community science project on air quality, we partnered with Denver residents to understand and address air pollution and construction-related disruption caused by a highway expansion project and neighborhood redevelopment. Read about this work in Frontiers in Environmental Science & Journal of Environmental Management or visit our website.

I led a qualitative evaluation on the experiences of people experiencing homelessness receiving unconditional cash transfers through the Denver Basic Income Project & DU’s Center on Housing & Homelessness Research. Read the Year 1 executive summary & qualitative report. Additional information available by request.

Using a case study of mixed-income housing development in Denver, CO, I co-led a study examining perceptions and experiences of residents undergoing HUD-sponsored public housing redevelopments. Findings are published in Social Science & Medicine and Urban Geography.

I co-led a study on school-based health centers (SBHCs) in Colorado, examining their impact on high school graduation rates, published in Journal of Adolescent Health, as well as their impact on contraceptive access among young adults, published in Health Promotion Practice.

Partnered with Denver Homeless Out Loud, I co-led a community-based participatory research project on the health & safety impacts of criminalizing homelessness through an urban camping ban in Denver, CO. The survey results from 484 individuals experiencing homelessness are published in Journal of Social Distress and Homelessness. You can also access and use the ICPSR dataset.