Welcome! I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at Vanderbilt University.

I study political behavior, social movements, and public opinion in the US with a focus on gender, racial, and ethnic politics. My dissertation research focuses on women’s political behavior, political attitudes, and group consciousness and examines how women of different racial and partisan identities respond to women’s movements, using experiments, surveys, causal inference methods, and qualitative methods. My research is forthcoming in The Journal of Politics and has been published in The New York Times.

My other projects explore the local effects of the 2017 Women’s March, public understandings of race and racial disparities, the effects of the Dobbs decision on women’s willingness to disclose their pregnancy status, public opinion on sexual harassment prevention training and DEI training, and enslaved resistance movements in the US South.

Previously, I worked as a Research Analyst in the Justice Policy Center at the Urban Institute. As a mixed-methods researcher, I designed and fielded surveys; led interviews and focus groups; and collected and analyzed quantitative and qualitative data for projects on criminal legal system reform, gender-based violence, behavioral health, and clemency and voting rights.

I graduated with highest distinction (summa cum laude) from the University of Virginia with a BA in Political Philosophy, Policy, & Law; a BA in Economics; and a minor in Women, Gender, & Sexuality.