My research and teaching interests encompass intersections of health and medicine, gender and sexuality, and justice. Although I build my courses and research projects around sociological theory, I incorporate my educational training and professional experience as a social worker, school sexuality educator, and adolescent reproductive health counselor into my research methods and course construction. Using an intersectional framework I incorporate discussion of racism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, sexism, classism, and xenophobia throughout my courses, and encourage students to both explore personal biases and understand the effects of social structures that privilege some groups and marginalize others. While I was initially interested in social impacts on health, after spending several years primarily teaching sociology to pre-medical and pre-health students, my lens has shifted to focus on the structure of medicine, specifically medical education.