Education
PhD in Sociology and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Yale University (2022-present)
BA Honours in Sociology, University of Cape Town (2020)
Bachelor of Social Sciences in Sociology, Politics, and French Language and Literature, University of Cape Town (2017-2019)

Research Interests

Gender & Sexuality Studies, Medical Sociology, Science & Technology Studies, and Socio-Legal Studies

Conference Presentations
American Sociological Society Annual Meeting (8-12 August, 2025) [Chicago, USA], “Tracking Trimesters: The Digital Surveillance of Pregnancy”
Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting (6-9 March, 2025) [Boston, USA], “Tracking Trimesters: The Digital Surveillance of Pregnancy”
EASST-4S (17 July, 2024) [Amsterdam, The Netherlands], co-presenter alongside Prof. Alka Menon, “Opening the Black Box: Explaining Automated Software Systems”
Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting (3 March, 2024) [Washington DC, USA] co-presenter alongside Matthew Bray and Fikir Mekonnen, “Making AI Experts? Thinking across Disciplines and Career Stages”
Law and Society Annual Meeting (1 June, 2023) [San Juan, Puerto Rico], presenter [co-authored with Prof. Alka Menon], “Opening the Black Box: Explaining Automated Software Systems”

Selected Grants and Awards
Yale Institution for Social and Policy Studies Graduate Policy Fellow (2026)
Yale Women Faculty Forum Seed Grant (2025)
SSRC Mellon Mays Graduate Initiatives Program Graduate Studies Enhancement Grant(2024)
SSRC Mellon Mays Graduate Initiatives Program Graduate Studies Enhancement Grant(2023)
Max Price and Deborah Posel Honours Scholarship, University of Cape Town (2020)
National Research Foundation Honours Innovation Scholarship (2020)
Honours Merit Scholarship, University of Cape Town (2020)
Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, University of Cape Town (2019-2020)