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I am a sociologist who studies the relationship between medicine, technology, and society, with a focus on race and racism. I am an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Yale University and author of the award-winning book Refashioning Race: How Global Cosmetic Surgery Crafts New Beauty Standards. My current book project, The Weight of Inequality, examines what GLP-1 drugs (aka “Ozempic”) tell us about health and the healthcare system in the U.S. today. Other ongoing research projects include an investigation of AI accountability in health contexts and a third book project on AI, Medicine, and Society, co-authored with Xenophon Papademetris and Emily Johns (under advance contract with Cambridge University Press).

My work has appeared in Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FaccT), Social Science & Medicine, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and Poetics and has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Social Science Research Council. I have also contributed insights from my research to international media reports, including Mother Jones, the Washington Post, Folha de São Paulo, Deutsche Welle, and Göteborgs-Posten.

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