As the child of an Indo-Guyanese single mother, I see the work of sociology as embedded in broader questions of inequity and struggles for liberation. As a scholar of representation, this is a source of energy for my work. I am immensely grateful to have found some of my closest friends in these spaces, such as the collective varyCSS, which works to diversify the field of computational social science (CSS). As a Data Science Disseminator Fellow with the Cornell Center for Social Sciences, I’m currently organizing the first symposium on diversity in computational social sciences hosted at Cornell University, which I hope will become a recurring endeavor.

I find this work equally rewarding in its everyday applications. As the first graduate representative of the Cornell Department of Sociology’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee and a graduate representative of our department’s Graduate Admissions Committee, I worked with faculty members to build resources for our community and pathways toward equity from within the department and university. With christina ong, I co-organized and moderated the workshop POC and the Ph.D.: Academia by and for Graduate Students of Color at the American Sociological Association and Eastern Sociological Society’s annual conferences. It is a constant bolster for our work and for our communities to have been able to see change as it happens and be a part of it.