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

I study political behavior, social movements, and public opinion with a focus on gender, racial, and ethnic politics. My dissertation project focuses on women’s political behavior, political attitudes, and group consciousness and examines how women across different racial and partisan groups respond to women’s movements, using experiments, surveys, causal inference methods, and qualitative methods. My research is forthcoming in The Journal of Politics, has been published in The New York Times, and has been supported by the Empirical Study of Gender Research Network (EGEN) and Vanderbilt.

My other projects explore the effects of the 2017 Women’s March, the effects of the Dobbs decision on women’s willingness to share their pregnancy status, public understandings of race and racial disparities, 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 at the Urban Institute, a nonprofit policy research organization. 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.