About

I studied finance and economics at the University of Pittsburgh. Once I graduated, I worked at a management consulting firm and subsequently at a tech company. When I initially joined the Organization & Management (O&M) PhD program at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School, I was on the ‘macro’, economic sociology track. After my first year, I realized the ‘micro’, organizational behavior track of the program was better suited for my research interests. Even so, given the enormous body of literature, across the social sciences and the humanities, related to my program of work, I like to think my time as a ‘macro’ scholar still influences how I engage with my research. Specifically, I try to be really open and thoughtful concerning how to use existing literature to develop novel research questions and theories of interest across disciplines. This lent itself quite well to the O&M group at Goizueta, which is a joint department for ‘macro’ and ‘micro’ scholars. It’s also quite well suited for a business school like Rotman that values exceptional research of many varieties and has a number of faculty that collaborate with scholars across the social sciences.

A bit more generally, I’m a first generation Nigerian American, and [in hindsight] my experiences of “double consciousness” probably have a lot to do with why I gravitate to research questions related to racial and ethnic relations. Outside of research, I’m an avid traveler (35+ countries), a breakfast enthusiast, a novice baker, and a BIG fan of salsa dancing. More recently, I’ve taken greater interest in the arts, specifically [non-academic] writing and theatrical performance (many moons ago, I did theater in high school).