I am an early-stage investigator and an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Washington School of Public Health. I worked in public health practice and am a trained population health researcher and social epidemiologist with substantive and methodological expertise in violence prevention. I have trained in Population Centers as a T32 Population Science Postdoctoral Scholar in the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and T32 Interdisciplinary Population Health Predoctoral Trainee at the University of Minnesota. My goal is to build a body of research that examines the multilevel factors that support and constrain violence within families, particularly related to family planning and pregnancy decision-making. I will do this by building a body of research that: 1) conceptualizes the restriction of reproductive autonomy as an act of violence, 2) develops a population-based measurement of this conceptualization, and 3) identifies key intervention points to support individuals when they are experiencing the restriction of reproductive autonomy. These components lay the ground to support reproductive autonomy across the population, specifically in underserved communities, informed by understanding of the role of larger social structures, family, and cultural contexts.