I am a social science researcher, Ph.D. Candidate and registered dietitian. My research focuses on population health and drivers of dietary behaviors. I am interested in how structural and social factors intersect to shape the way people eat. I use a variety of quantitative approaches including secondary data analysis, survey design and analysis, and experimental methodology. In my current research, I use data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey to examine differences in MyPlate use between Mexican Americans and non-Hispanic Whites. Alongside a mentor, I am using this same dataset and latent class analysis to extrapolate a new measurement of diet that reflects the foods people eat in the United States. Finally, I am interested in the idea of Naturalness Bias and how it shapes choices in food, medicine and household products as seen in a recent publication: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0272989X231189494