Hi there!
I am an assistant professor of Government at American University’s School of Public Affairs. My work focuses on local institutions and machine learning. Specifically, I am interested in developing new tools for measuring the policy-making activities and outcomes of city councils. Additionally, I study the effects of electoral institutions such as Ranked Choice Voting on representation and candidate entry.
My work has received the William Anderson Dissertation Award and the Best Paper Award in the Urban and Local Politics Section from the American Political Science Association, and has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, Political Analysis, and Political Research Quarterly. I have also received funding from the National Science Foundation and the Institute for Humane Studies.
I graduated from the University of Chicago in 2017 with a B.A. in Political Science. I received my PhD from the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Davis.
In my free time I enjoy traveling, playing tennis, riding my motorcycle, going on long walks with my dog, and watching soccer (or bad TV).