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 cultivate flourishing through social infrastructure, placemaking, and ethnoracial economies. This agenda takes shape in two book projects. My first book, Flourishing in Black LA: Why Gathering Matters in a Fragmented Metropolis, develops a sociological theory of flourishing, drawing on ethnography to show how everyday gathering fosters belonging, well-being, and community in an era of Black dispersal. My second book, Affirming Blackness: Race-Making and Racism in Digital Brazil, develops a theory of affirmative race-making, drawing on digital methods to explain how Afro-Brazilians challenge a media world saturated with Black death and reclaim Black life. My work has appeared in Urban Studies, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Gender, Work & Organization, and Contexts and has received awards from the American Sociological Association’s sections of Race and Ethnic Minorities and Latina/o Sociology, the Association of Black Sociologists, and the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Across my research, I advance a sociology of flourishing. Too often sociology examining Black life focuses on death, despair, and deprivation, and there is, without question, a great deal of each. Yet flourishing, freedom, and fun still exist. I attend to these in every project, asking where Black people flourish, how they practice freedom, and what joy and pleasure do for them as ends in themselves. Moving beyond the absence of harm, I treat Black flourishing as a collective achievement of relationships, institutions, and cultural practices that enable communities to develop fulfilling and meaningful lives.