I am a PhD studentin Urban Studies & Planning at MIT. My work focuses on disability justice, care infrastructures, and everyday forms of interdependence in informal settlements. I collaborate with caregivers, community organizers, and disabled residents in Johannesburg to understand how care sustains life where formal systems fall short — and what planning can learn from these practices to build more just and livable cities.

My research uses ethnographic and participatory methods to document the improvisational labor of care, support, and survival practiced by families and residents in Slovo Park and neighboring settlements. I theorize care as infrastructure: collectively improvised, relational, and essential to urban life.

My broader work contributes to disability justice in planning, feminist political economy, and community-based design. I am committed to research that is accountable to the communities it engages — and to reshaping planning around interdependence rather than extraction.