Research Analyst at the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Center's Bass Center for Transformative Placemaking, focusing on research to support place-based policies that promote equity, inclusion, and well-being.I graduated from the MSc City Design and Social Science program at the London School of Economics, where I earned a Distinction mark on my dissertation "Taking Back the 'L': Alternative Approaches to Gender-Based Violence on Chicago's Public Transit", which critically evaluated traditional forms of knowledge and data production to explore ways to reimagine public transit as a violence-free space, crucial to creating safer, more equitable, and sustainable communities and cities.Prior to graduate school, I worked through the COVID-19 pandemic as an EMT in Chicago on an ambulance and in a Level I Trauma Center emergency department while providing hospital-based support for survivors of sexual violence as a Certified Rape Crisis Counselor serving 17 Chicago emergency departments. Both of those experiences have played a crucial role in informing how I approach violence in the city.