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 currently takes shape in two book projects. My first book, Black Flourishing: Why Gathering Matters in a Fragmented Black 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 reauthor 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. Across my research, I advance a sociology of Black flourishing. Too often the sociology of Black life focuses on death, despair, and deprivation, and there is, without question, a great deal of each. And yet there is still flourishing, freedom, and fun. 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 rather than rewards deferred. More than the absence of harm, I treat Black flourishing as a collective achievement of relationships, institutions, and cultural practices that enable Black communities to develop fulfilling and meaningful lives.