Sam Kosai is a doctoral candidate in Sociology and Social Policy at Princeton University. They primarily research the political economy of healthcare, drawing on economic and medical sociology to study healthcare access and utilization. Sam’s dissertation explores the economic dimensions of gender-based care. She is also interested in the social safety net and poverty, qualitative methodologies, and gender theory.  

Sam actively serves on Princeton advisory committees related to student health and well-being. She is also a graduate mentor in the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship chapter at Princeton.

Prior to attending graduate school, Sam was a public health analyst at RTI International. They earned their BA in Sociology from the University of Southern California.