Women's Health APN, University of California, San Francisco, 2009
MS, Medical Sociology, University of California, San Francisco, 2007
BA, Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
I teach in the department of Health Sciences with a specialization in women’s health and medical sociology. I studied folklore at UC Berkeley and Medical Sociology at UCSF where, for many years, I worked as a researcher in the field of reproductive endocrinology and fertility, specifically genetics and kinship. I entered the MEPN program at UCSF in 2007 at which time I became a women's health nurse. I am currently a clinician in obstetrics (RNC-OB), public health and forensics (SANE A/P) in Santa Rosa; I am also a contributing member to the Mother and Baby Substance Exposure Initiative Toolkit and Health Equity Initiative for the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative.
Biopolitics and the female body
Harm reduction as nursing practice
Social studies of science and medicine
The Modernization of Hysterical Suffocation: The Historical Connection of the Wandering Womb to Contemporary Control of the Maternal Body. Under review: Social Science & Medicine, December 2024
Object Relations and the Atonement of the Father. Severance Magazine, February 2022
Kinship: What Makes a Family? Severance Magazine, March 2021
What We Have to Lose: Prevention vs. Intervention in Obstetric Care. American Journal of Nursing, January 2020; 120 (1): 11
Provide staff and provider education on opioid use disorder. Mother and Baby Substance Exposure Toolkit. Stanford, CA: California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative and California Perinatal Quality Care Collaborative. 2020; 39.
On “Variation in Cesarean Rates by Labor and Delivery Nurses.” A Critical Response. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecological and Neonatal Nursing; 2018 Mar;47(2):233-234
What do Patients Want? Expectations and perceptions of IVF clinic information and support regarding frozen embryo disposition, Fertility & Sterility, 2010
How couples who have undergone In Vitro fertilization decide what to do with their frozen embryos, Fertility & Sterility, 2009
The challenge of providing infertility services to low-income Latino population, Fertility & Sterility, 2009
Non-reproductive technologies: Remediating kin structure with donor gametes. Science, Technology & Human Values, 2008
Shaping the Future: California’s Response to Rising Above the Gathering Storm California Council on Science & Technology, 2008
Critical Path Analysis of California’s Science and Mathematics Teacher Preparation System, California Council on Science & Technology, 2008
A Critical Response to ‘Slouching Toward Policy: Lazy Bioethics and the Perils of Science Fiction’ , The American Journal of Bioethics, 2005
The Chosen Family: Re-mediating kin structure with donor gametes, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, STS Graduate Seminar 2004