My research focuses on the well-being and experiences of youth in the child welfare system. Specifically, my research emphasizes how different placements and variations in system involvement impact emotional and behavioral well-being and their expectations for their future. My scholarship focuses broadly on child maltreatment, childhood, and family, examining how child welfare involvement varies from family to family and how experiencing adversity and system involvement negatively affects families and child well-being. My research aims to understand the interplay of child maltreatment and involvement in the child welfare system with multiple domains of well-being through adolescence into early adulthood. Another research area of mine examines factors exacerbating income inequality, focusing on the racial income gap and occupational factors driving pay disparities. I have published research in the British Journal of Sociology, Sociological Perspectives, Sociological Forum, the Journal of Public Child Welfare, Children and Youth Services Review, the Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology, and Trials. I am a mixed methods researcher with expertise in advanced statistics and econometrics, as well as qualitative methods, including participatory action research (PAR).