I’m a Ph.D. candidate at the Hussman School of Journalism and Media, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a graduate research assistant at the Communicating for Health Impact Lab (CHI Lab). I am an interdisciplinary scholar who studies sexual media and health with an emphasis on messaging for health behavior change. This work is important to me because of its capacity to enhance intrapersonal and interpersonal relationships in addition to its public health implications.

Interests

  • Health Communication

  • Behavior Change

  • Mixed-method Research

  • Media Effects

  • Sexual Media

Education

Ph.D. in Communication and media, Expected 2025

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

M.A. in Communication Studies, 2021

California State University, Northridge

B.A. in Communication Studies, 2019

California State University, Northridge

Skills

Software and Languages

SPSS, Qualtrics, R

Qualitative

Thematic Analysis, Textual Analysis, Grounded Theory

Quantitative

Survey, Experiment, Content Analysis, Meta-Analysis, Statistical Analysis

Research Highlights

  • Published in Sexual Health

  • Published in Social Science & Medicine.

  • Published in The Journal of Sex Research

  • Published in Culture, Health & Sexuality