I’m a published researcher, experienced senior campaign staffer, strategic communicator, and documentarian.
My goal is to promote equity through compelling advocacy and storytelling — on and offline.
Hello and welcome! Here’s a bit about my work:
I’ve worked on municipal, statewide, and national elections crafting successful and comprehensive digital strategies. I was previously involved in education advocacy for Democrats for Education Reform - Massachusetts and in Constituent Services in the Massachusetts Governor’s Office.
Outside of politics, I’m a nationally and internationally-awarded filmmaker for my two documentaries: Back of the House, which focused on the role of immigrants in the Massachusetts restaurant industry, and Commitment, which traces the history of the national fight for same-sex marriage.
My current project, Service Beyond Bars, is supported by the University of Chicago’s Divinity School and explores how prison chaplains and community reentry organizations can build a holistic culture of care inside and beyond correctional facilities.
I hold an MPhil in Religious Studies from the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge with a Gates-Cambridge Scholarship, and I am a 2023 graduate of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, where I undertook a two-year ethnographic study of prison and jail chaplaincy.
Selected Publications:
— Hindutva’s (Re)Construction of the Ram Mandir, Journal of Vaishnava Studies (Forthcoming June 2025)
— The Doors God Can’t Open: Observations of Chaplaincy in Prisons and Jails, The Scholar (2024)
— Chaplaincy as Care, Care as Chaplaincy, Corrections Today (2023)