I am an Assistant Professor of Sociology and African & African Diaspora Studies at Boston College. As an urban and economic sociologist of race and culture, I examine how Black communities across the Americas use social infrastructure, placemaking, and entrepreneurship to cultivate flourishing. I am currently completing two book projects that draw on ethnographic, digital, and comparative/relational methods. My first book, Black Flourishing: Why Gathering Matters in a Fragmented Black Metropolis, develops a sociological theory of flourishing, showing how everyday gathering fosters belonging, well-being, and community in an era of fragmentation. My second book, Affirming Blackness: Race-Making and Racism in Digital Brazil, examines how Afro-Brazilians use new media to contest racism, construct racial identities, and advance a politics of Black affirmation. My work has appeared in Urban Studies, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Gender, Work & Organization, and Contexts. Across my research, I advance a sociology of Black flourishing, an agenda organized around a single question: how does Black life flourish in a world structured by anti-Blackness? I treat Black flourishing as more than the absence of harm. It is a collective achievement built through the relationships, institutions, and cultural practices that enable Black communities to make meaningful lives.