Hello! I am a first-year doctoral student in political science and public policy at the University of Michigan. My works applies novel computational methods to the study of social vulnerability. More specifically, I am interested in how populations with limited social/political/economic capital respond to shocks. I am also interested in the development of evidence-based policies that improve vulnerable populations’ capacity to recover from shocks. I am also interested in how individuals think about and respond to these policies based on salient identies like race, ethnicity, gender, and religion. Finally, I am interested in the adoption and governance of emerging technologies that might help vulnerable populations, keeping privacy, security, and fairness in mind.

Since January 2023 I have worked as an analyst with the UNC School of Government Criminal Justice Innovation Lab. I apply time series, NLP, and other computational methods to projects related to bail reform, alternative responses to behavioral health crises, criminal record clearance, and the North Carolina criminal legal landscape at large. I combine computer science theory with policy expertise to scale the Lab’s analytic capabilities on these and other projects.

I hold a Bachelor of Science in computer science, with a second major in political science, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.