Welcome! I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This summer, I will start a position as a Democratic Innovations Postdoctoral Associate at Yale's Institution for Social and Policy Studies. I earned my M.A. in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2021, and my B.A. in Public Policy and Data Analytics from William & Mary in 2019.

I study American political institutions, particularly the bureaucracy. In my research, I seek to understand how bureaucrats interact with institutions to make decisions and the implications these decisions have on inequality across the United States. My dissertation explores the capacity of interest groups to shape the federal rulemaking process. Beyond rulemaking, my interests extend to law enforcement practices, particularly examining the decision-making criteria of police officers during traffic stops and the resultant racially disparate outcomes.

I use a variety of methods in my research including text analysis, multilevel regression, and machine learning. I love collecting new datasets of administrative data and regularly use open records requests to discover and analyze new data.

​You can read some of my work in Policy Studies Journal, Perspectives on Politics, and American Criminal Law Review.