Strategy | Systems | Story
Advancing data and funding practices that prioritize people and justice.

My goal is to bridge the gap between complex data and the people it impacts. With my lived experience with foster care, doctoral research training, and California policy experience, I bring a unique practitioner-informed lens to data collection, evaluation, and funding strategies that prioritize justice and community voice.

Client Data Privacy and Defense: Led a taskforce to protect vulnerable Californians' data in 2025, in collaboration with legal counsel. The taskforce’s work, a combination of legal and technical mechanisms, informed Attorney General Bonta's November lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Cross-Agency Systems Design: Coordinated the design and implementation of California’s first integrated child care dataset. This was a successful (pilot) integration of child care program data for improved decision-making around the supply and demand of child care in California.

Legal Aid Community Mobilization and Advocacy: Mobilized statewide legal aid leaders through regular convenings, fostering relationships to brainstorm how to minimize federal policy and budget impacts. I organized workshops and other sessions on legal access for immigrant communities, disaster preparedness, housing and homelessness defense, and related policy issues.