I am a sociologist and legal scholar. I research and write about data privacy, the U.S. criminal legal system, surveillance, and technology.
I am an Associate Professor at Rutgers University-Newark School of Criminal Justice, a 2020-2021 American Bar Foundation/JPB Foundation Access to Justice Scholar, and a grant recipient of the National Institute of Justice Early Career Award.
I have written for the Washington Post, Wired, Slate, Vice, The Appeal, San Francisco Chronicle, and The Conversation on issues related to law and tech. I regularly testify to courts and government agencies about my research.
My book, Digital Punishment, was published in 2020 by Oxford University Press and is the recipient of the Michael J. Hindelang award, which recognizes an outstanding contribution to research in criminology. This project examines the growth of online crime data, mugshots, and criminal records and has been featured in the New York Times, the Guardian, National Public Radio’s Planet Money, WNYC’s the Takeaway, and other media outlets.
My academic research has been published in peer reviewed journals including Criminology, Law and Society Review, Law and Social Inquiry, Punishment & Society, The British Journal of Sociology, and Contexts.
I received a PhD in Sociology from the University of Minnesota and a JD from Rutgers Law School. My legal experience includes internships at the New York Office of the Appellate Defender and the New York Legal Assistance Group’s Pro Se Clinic at the Southern District of New York, and clinical practice at the Rutgers Expungement Law Project. Before academia, I was an Americorps VISTA and researcher for nonprofit organizations.