I am researcher interested in gender and how it functions in the structures determining everyday experiences of people. I am based at the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies of the University of Bristol (UK) where I am a Lecturer in Politics/International Development. My work so far has focused on how neoliberal ideas and reforms affect livelihoods of women in East African countries. My first book (Selling Sex in Kenya: Gendered Agency under Neoliberalism, forthcoming with Cambridge University Press in December 2019) relies of the life stories and narratives of self-identified sex workers in Mombasa (Kenya) to explore gendered socio-economic structures that define opportunities for women in the local economies and women’s agency when negotiating those structures for their own advantage. My research has also been published in peer reviewed journals such as Development & Change, New Political Economy, and Review of African Political Economy among other outlets. My current research is developing in two main areas: (1) gendered and gendering effects of new large infrastructure projects of East Africa; (2) informality and gender in food security strategies of the Caribbean states.