My current ethnographic project explores the question of how we can bring marginalized populations to sectors that have historically been inaccessible to them. Specifically, I examine the case study of a nonprofit that tries to overcome race- and class-based barriers in classical music by providing a tuition-free afterschool program in New England. Through this organizational ethnography, I aim to uncover strategies that can be employed to combat structural barriers to access and, therefore, to organizational diversity.

Another strand of my research looks at the use of mediated communication to bypass border controls. My recent publication has examined how YouTube vlogging transformed the experience of immobility imposed by South Korean COVID-19 Quarantine Policies. Currently, I am working on a collaborative project that looks at the communication network of North Korean refugees across the North Korea-China border.