I study the criminalization of informal economic activity in the Bay Area; most of my research has focused on San Francisco's ban on street vending on Mission Street, which began in November 2023. The Mission Corridor vending ban exemplifies a lot of interesting things: the conflation of "law" and "order"; the law's corresponding intervention against perceived "disorder," which is typically (and sometimes explicitly) classed and racialized; the mobilization of law toward the interests of capital. It also provides a case study of public space as both a site and an object of class struggle. I use both archival and qualitative field methods.
Before coming to JSP, I worked as reader for Judge David Tatel, did research on child support policy for the Center for Policy Research, and took Spanish classes at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). My political home is the East Bay Democratic Socialists of America.
B.A., History, Stanford University, 2020; JD, Berkeley Law, expected 2028