Rather than studying the nature of social problems like mass incarceration, racial inequality, or poverty, my research agenda focuses on the changemakers who try to tackle those problems. In the wake of the George Floyd uprisings, my mixed methods dissertation investigated where the country stood on debates over racial equity and public safety using novel survey data and an ethnography of one Southern city’s efforts to transform their community safety system. Outside of that work, I am affiliated with the Northwestern Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research and Science (CORNERS), where I help facilitate evaluations of community violence interventions in Chicago via collaborative community partnerships. Trained in mixed methods, I view combining qualitative and quantitative modes of data collection, analysis, or inference as a distinct skill set with its own markers of rigor. I am passionate about teaching research methodology, including introductory statistics and regression methods for the social sciences.