Across my career I have pursued methods that are innovative, rigorous, and designed to reach the people and questions that matter most. I advanced the development of asynchronous online focus groups and text message based interviewing as research methods, publishing on both and putting them to work across multiple federally funded studies. I am now applying large language models to analyze crisis counseling conversations at scale, with careful attention to validity and interpretability. I have also led collaborative research processes that brought community partners on as co-authors, and presented findings to the communities most affected by this work.

Building methods capacity in others is as important to me as advancing my own work, and I have done so by mentoring trainees, teaching research methods coursework at the University of Portland and the University of California San Francisco, delivering trainings on R for research and evaluation, and giving lectures on thematic analysis and interviewing skills.