Eric Stone is a doctoral student and graduate assistant at the University of Maryland, College Park. Currently, he serves as a teaching assistant in the Department of Sociology. His research is situated in the realm of gender, work, family, and health – with an emphasis on the experiences of vulnerable populations and diverse family forms across the life course. Eric employs a number of quantitative methods to identify and explore patterns of inequality (and their consequences). His second-year paper focused on amounts and types of leisure as behavioral indicators of health and social integration. Using 2003-2017 American Time Use Survey (ATUS) data, he examined leisure activity differences between men and women in same-sex and different-sex relationships. Currently, Eric is collaborating with Dr. Long Doan to evaluate “outness” as a mediator to healthcare access among LGB adults using data from the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG). Other current projects include examining self-care deficits in relation to gender, parenthood and marital status, the cardiovascular health consequences of perceived discrimination, the quantification of poverty, and the stratification of end-of-life planning. Eric is also an advocate for public sociology and an active contributor to Contexts (a quarterly magazine of the American Sociological Association aimed at making social science research accessible to the general public).