My interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching focus on the relationships among capitalism, de/coloniality, international development, and education. 

I am the author of The Gender Effect: Capitalism, Feminism, and the Corporate Politics of Development (University of California Press 2018), winner of the National Women’s Studies Association’s Sara A. Whaley Prize.  

I am currently writing the monograph, Silicon Futures: How Silicon Valley Influences Education around the World, with support of a Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2024-2025). 

My academic writing has been published in scholarly journals, such as Feminist Studies, Feminist Theory, Educational Researcher, Journal of Education Policy, British Journal of Sociology of Education, Globalisation, Societies & Education, Education Policy Analysis Archives, and International Journal of Education Development.

I have written essays for The New Yorker, Chronicle of Philanthropy, Fast Company, and The Huffington Post based on my research. 

I have also appeared on BBC’s Business Daily, NPR’s Marketplace, Wisconsin Public Radio’s Central Time, and Northeast Public Radio’s 51%.

My research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation, Spencer Foundation, Fulbright, Fulbright Hays, and the Wenner-Gren Foundation. 

I am an editor of Feminist Studies, the first scholarly journal in the field of gender, feminist, and women’s studies in the U.S. 

I am a University Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge.  

I have previously taught at the University of Glasgow, Stanford University, and University of Wisconsin-Madison.  I was also postdoctoral researcher at the Haas Institute for a Fair & Inclusive Society (now Othering & Belonging Institute) at University of California, Berkeley.  I received my Ph.D. (2012) from the Social and Cultural Studies Program in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to graduate school, I was a high school teacher in the U.S. and Honduras.

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