I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the College of New Jersey. I received my Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 2023.

I specialize in American Politics with a particular interest in how gender (in conjunction with other identities) influences women's experiences of politics and political participation. My current book project explores the role of Women's Candidate Training Organizations in shaping women's decisions to run for political office. Through a theory of Organizational Identity Signaling, I demonstrate that women's organizations are distinctly equipped to address women's material and psychological barriers to running for office. However, these organizations vary in their ability to address the diversity of women's barriers to running, across identities like race, ethnicity, and partisanship, influencing representation across multiple dimensions.

My research has been published in the British Journal of Political Science, and has received generous support from the National Science Foundation's Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS), the American Political Science Association, and the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford Fellowship and Center for the Employment of Women+.

My teaching philosophy is grounded in a desire to ensure all students are scaffolded and challenged. I have mentored eleven undergraduate Research Assistants across three projects, even receiving a competitive Undergraduate Research Mentorship Award in 2022.