I am a political sociologist of disability whose research explores how disabled people experience, navigate, and contest the divergent and often contradictory meanings and policy implications of disability in the contemporary US. In doing so, I look at how disability is understood and enacted in systems of social welfare, in the workplace, in congregate settings such as nursing homes, and in community organizing and social movements. At earlier stages of my career, I have served as a front line social worker and health educator, a policy research analyst with the federal Department of Health and Human services, and as a grassroots organizer. That work informs my ongoing research and teaching.
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