I'm a cultural historian working in clinical psychology. I write about where private life and public history intersect.

Much of my writing begins with a small preoccupation: aspirational pantries, corporate perks, wooden shoes. Training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy made me wonder whether these fixations were ever really about the objects themselves. Treating them as clues rather than preferences led me to ask how collective problems become private burdens. My essays and reporting have appeared in The Nation, Psyche, Dwell, and elsewhere.

I'm writing The Inheritance Complex, a book about the hidden social histories we mistake for personal failures.

I hold a PhD in cultural history from the University of Pennsylvania and am completing a doctorate in clinical psychology at The Wright Institute, where my dissertation examines perimenopause as a developmental transition. Throughout my training, I've worked with individuals and couples in community mental health. I live in Berkeley, California, with my family.