Welcome!

I am currently on administrative leave from SAMHSA, after joining the Agency in November 2024. As a result, I am currently seeking employment!

I earned my PhD in Government from Cornell University, where I majored in International Relations and minored in Comparative Politics. During my time at Cornell, I was also a Graduate Fellow at the Gender and the Security Sector Lab, PI Dr. Sabrina Karim.

My research is broadly in the areas of international relations and comparative politics. More specifically, my work focuses on UN peacekeeping/peacebuilding and foreign security assistance. My dissertation project, “Autocrats Keeping Peace? An Analysis of the Impact of Autocratic T/PCCs on UN Peace Operations,” explores the impact of the participation of peacekeepers from autocracies on UN peacekeeping.

For my dissertation, I conducted quantitative analyses (primarily using R) as well as qualitative comparative case studies on South Sudan and the Central African Republic. I also designed an original survey experiment on Qualtrics that I conducted with the Zambia Police Service. I traveled to Zambia in the summer of 2023 to complete the survey with a team of enumerators and captured over 400 responses from police officers.

I earned an MS in Global Affairs from NYU’s Center For Global Affairs and a BA in Global Studies from Providence College. I am also a former Civil War Paths Fellow at the Centre for the Comparative Study of Civil War, USIP-Minerva Peace Scholar, and RAND Summer Associate.