Hello!

I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate with Lily Mason's Democracy and Division Lab at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University.  My substantive research explores how Americans perceive and respond to policy extremism on some of today’s most contentious culture war issues. My methodological research examines the extent to which LLMs "think" about political issues, how their decisionmaking differs from human reasoning processes, and how machine learning methods impact survey methods and public opinion research. 

I received my Ph.D. from UC Davis in 2026, where I studied American Politics and Empirical and Computational Methodology.  My solo-authored work has been published in Election Law Journal and accepted for publication at State Politics & Policy Quarterly and as a chapter in the forthcoming edited volume Understanding Experimental Political Science: Recruiting and Engaging Diverse Participants. I currently have other solo-authored methodological work under review at Public Opinion Quarterly (Revise and Resubmit).

My research has been supported by multiple funding sources, including the Civic Health and Institutions Project (CHIP50), the Cornell Center for Social Sciences, and the Institute for Humane Studies. I was named a 2025-26 Early Career Fellow with APSA's Experimental Research section and a 2024-25 Early Career Fellow with APSA's Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior (EPOVB) section.

I am also passionate about mentoring graduate students and advanced undergraduates in research design and methods. During the 2025-26 year, I was an instructor of record for the undergraduate research methods course at the UC Center Sacramento. I'm also affilated with the ICPSR Summer Program at the University of Michigan, where I've TAed the Causal inference I course since 2025.

Before applying to graduate school, I worked in politics professionally for several years. I fundraised for a nationally-recognized Congressional race and worked in Constituent Services for a Congressional District Office. I have lived in various places throughout Northern California, as well as the Washington, D.C. area, rural Colorado, and Reykjavík, Iceland.

In my free time, I enjoy traveling, live music (especially electronic music and 2000s punk rock), Formula 1 (McLaren and Cadillac fan), working out, writing for fun, and exploring new spots in Baltimore.