About

I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. I study political behavior, state and local governance, and the criminal-justice system. My current research examines how policing affects political participation, and the link between voters, interest groups, and criminal justice outcomes at the local level. In other work, I study elite communication and inequality in American news media. I draw on a wide range of data sources and empirical strategies including both natural and field experiments, machine learning, natural language processing, qualitative interviews, panel surveys, and administrative data obtained through public records requests. My research has been published in the Journal of Politics and Science Advances.

I received my PhD in Political Science from the Ohio State University, where my work was supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.