I am a sociologist and ethnographer. I am currently lead research and education initiatives at the Sandberg Goldberg Bernthal Family Foundation, including our annual Women in the Workplace report - the largest study on women in corporate America. Previously I was a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Consumer Studies at the University of Utah and a nonresident fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.

My work is at the intersection of family, gender, and inequality, with a focus on maternal and child health and well-being. My research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Cancer Institute, Russell Sage Foundation, and Utah Department of Labor. I currently serve on the Board of Directors for Hunger Free America. I completed my Ph.D. in Sociology from Stanford University and my postdoctoral training as a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Fellow in Cardiovascular Disease Prevention at the Stanford School of Medicine.