Other Work
The Border, the Sea, the Beyond? Cultural and Economic Impacts of SpaceX Starbase in Brownsville
In 2023, I began conducting interviews with community members in the Brownsville, Texas area to better understand how recent developments—including the arrival and development of SpaceX Starbase next to Boca Chica Beach—are impacting Brownsville’s economic, cultural, and community life and how residents are responding and making meaning of these changes.
Boca Chica Beach, Texas, 2023 (PC: K Griesbach)
Grocery Delivery Workers Project
I worked with Adam Reich at Columbia University and Ruth Milkman and Luke Elliott-Negri at the City University of New York between 2018 and 2022 to examine the experiences of grocery delivery workers across the United States. Our mixed-methods study drew on in-depth interviews and a survey of workers across the US to examine the composition, experiences, and nature of delivery work. Project publications examined and conceptualized workers’ experiences of algorithmic control (see Griesbach et al 2019) and the salience of gender for workers’ orientations to and experiences of their work (see Milkman et al 2020).
Our research was funded by the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), the Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics (INCITE) at Columbia University, the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, and Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS).
Writing Consulting
I have extensive experience as a writing consultant and editor. I had the privilege of working as a Writing Consultant at the Columbia University Writing Center for four years, from fall 2016 through spring 2020. Drawing on these and other skills, my colleague and I started a writing cooperative for writing coaching and academic editing in 2018. I worked with writers on academic articles, as well as dissertations, theses, and other genres across disciplines, including academic and job applications and creative work. This background informs both my writing and teaching practice.