Questions about people, behavior, systems, and possibility.
My research profile spans qualitative inquiry, program evaluation, evidence synthesis, scholarly review, and emerging questions about how AI interacts with human judgment and disability.
Research in development.
Status matters. Proposed work is labeled as proposed; completed work is labeled as completed.
Disability Disclosure and Frontier AI
Proposed study: does disclosing significant physical disability cause frontier AI to narrow otherwise-capable adults’ options and ambitions?
Mixed-methods concept using paired prompts, structured ratings, interviews, a codebook, and evaluation of quality, agency, and scope.
Research concept →External dissertation review
External doctoral committee work includes reviewing conceptual coherence, methodology, evidence quality, and alignment among research questions, methods, findings, and conclusions.
Examining the Lived Experience Mothers Have With Social Media.
PhD in General Psychology, completed 2020.
Qualitative research
The dissertation examined mothers’ lived experiences with social media, using qualitative research methods to understand meaning, experience, and themes rather than reducing the question to a single numerical measure.
Dissertation overview →What it demonstrates
Research design, literature synthesis, qualitative methodology, interviewing/inquiry, thematic interpretation, scholarly writing, and sustained completion of a complex long-form project.
Research that stays connected to real human questions.
Qualitative inquiry
Lived experience, interviews, thematic interpretation, context, and meaning.
Program evaluation
Questions of effectiveness, implementation, usability, outcomes, and what should change next.
AI & human judgment
How systems frame options, preserve or reduce agency, handle evidence, and affect decision quality.