Aaron is a third-year PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology pursuing certificates in the History of Science & Gender and Sexuality Studies. He is a medical and environmental anthropologist working in Taiwan and China on questions of public health, pandemic preparedness, biosecurity, and critical approaches to race, ethnicity, and indigeneity.

Prior to graduate school, Aaron earned a BA in Anthropology from Columbia University 2019, for which he completed an ethnographic project in Shanghai.