After growing up in the United States, I moved to the UK in 1999 to complete my undergraduate degree. I worked as a performer, journalist and teacher before returning to university. I completed my PhD in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London in 2014. Following this, I worked at the Open University as a research assistant and for a London grassroots charity as a researcher. In 2015 I was awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the University of Cambridge where I worked from 2016-2019. My research monograph, Factories for Learning, was published in 2017 by Manchester University Press. It received the Society for Educational Studies Book Prize 2018 and is currently being translated into Japanese. I have also been a visiting scholar at New York University’s Institute for Public Knowledge and the University of Copenhagen

migration, urban space, neoliberalism, education, race, class, gender, inequality