Hello there! I’m a postdoctoral fellow at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute in Washington D.C.
I am a political scientist whose research bridges American political institutions, statistical methodology, and democratic behavior. A central focus is oversight and lawmaking capacity in what I dub the “Legislative State,” a network of understudied people and institutions that support Congress.
Additionally, I teach a graduate-level topical workshop on causal machine learning methods at the Inter-university Consortium for Political & Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan.
I hold a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Davis with subfields in methods and American politics. I also received a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from George Washington University.
Before graduate school, I was an economic policy research analyst at the Bipartisan Policy Center. At BPC, I contributed to research on the federal budget, debt limit, Social Security and Medicare financing, and defense personnel reform.
