Under the supervision of Dr. Chantel White in the Anthropology Department at the University of Pennsylvania, I completed archaeological research on spiritual object caches of 19th-century enslaved populations in Charleston, South Carolina. The research culminated in a guide on identifying these spiritual caches as specific contexts within an excavation and will include commonly used items and their possible meetings, important colors and materials, and key locations.

Through the Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program (PURM) and under the supervision of esteemed professor Dorothy E. Roberts, I assisted in her research "The Social Experience and Science of Interracial Marriage in Chicago, 1937-1967." My duties included active archival analysis and independent sociology research regarding societal perspectives of interracial marriage in Chicago at the time.

Through the AP Capstone program, I conducted and led a mixed-methods research study investigating the self-esteem of black women. The first part of the project consisted of a content analysis of four Disney Channel television shows to discover the presence of racial stereotyping utilizing the Mammy, Sapphire, and Jezebel archetypes of black women in media. The second part consisted of interviews with adult-aged black women to determine the effect of viewing such stereotyping on self-esteem. My research on this project resulted in a perfect score on the AP Research exam.