I am a human geographer and PhD candidate studying feminist political economy, platform gig labor, and carceral geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. My dissertation-in-progress investigates how Bangladeshi food delivery workers experience and navigate algorithmic management, deteriorating working conditions, and carceral regimes working for apps like Uber Eats, Doordash, and Grubhub in New York City. The project, tentatively titled “Working Class Life and the After-Effects of Algorithmic Management: Immigrants, Wages, and Urban Space,” uses community-engaged methods and ethnography to outline how apps dispossess workers’ labor and time, and how in response workers struggle to make their lives better amidst these conditions.
My writing has appeared in Antipode, Frontiers: A Journal of Womens’ Studies, and The Trouble. My work is supported by numerous awards and grants, including the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship, UW-Madison University Fellowship, Morgridge Center Community Engaged Research Grant, and the Public Humanities Exchange Scholarship.