I am a PhD candidate in Politics at Princeton University and will defend my dissertation in October 2024. I will be an American Political Science Association Fellow on Capitol Hill in 2025. I was a Social Impact Fellow at New America from 2023-2024 and coauthored a report on how proportional representation might affect the US House of Representatives.
I study policymaking in Congress and state legislatures using both quantitative and qualitative methods. My published papers investigate the relationship between supermajority rules and bipartisan policymaking and how the media covers legislative achievements. My dissertation considers congressional policymaking in response to crises during the era of polarization.
I received my BA in political science from the University of Georgia in 2017 and worked as a staff writer for Ballotpedia for 2 years before starting graduate school. I have also worked on The Almanac of American Politics since 2018 and have served as research director since 2020.
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