I am the Barbara and Meyer Feldberg Associate Professor of Business at Columbia Business School and a faculty affiliate of the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics. I am also the Co-Director of the Equity by Design Lab, which provides developmental support to junior scholars studying organizational drivers of inequality, and I serve on the Academic Advisory Council for ERA Project at NYU Law’s Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Center, a law and policy think tank focused on advancing gender equity.

In my research, I study inequality in organizations, asking not only when disparities persist but also when they are overcome. I examine routine business practices—such as referral programs and peer review systems—to show how they shape both evaluations and the pursuit of career opportunities. Much of my work focuses on gender, though I am increasingly examining other dimensions of inequality. I favor field data and design studies to address core critiques of inequality research—for example, by using natural and field experiments and careful identification strategies to account for unobserved quality differences. I pair these approaches with a contextual understanding of my field sites, as this multi-method perspective allows me to capture the boundary conditions under which inequality is most and least likely to persist.

My research has been published in top peer-reviewed journals, including Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, American Sociological Review, Organization Science, Psychological Science, and Research in Organizational Behavior, and has been recognized with numerous prestigious awards and grants, including from The Kauffman Foundation and The Russell Sage Foundation. Insights from my research have also been featured in leading media outlets, including the Harvard Business Review and Wall Street Journal. Recognizing my impact, Thinkers50 named me to its 2025 Radar Class, which highlights scholars shaping the future of management.

At Columbia, I redesigned the MBA Power and Influence course, which is a popular elective among students. I also regularly teach executive courses on power, influence, and networks, as well as PhD seminars on organizational theory.

I received my PhD and SM from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management and my BA in Mathematics from Providence College. Prior to entering my PhD program I worked in the finance industry—as an actuary, risk analyst, and project manager.

I live in NYC with my husband Joe and our two children.

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