Hello! I am a sixth-year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. I am also pursuing a Master of Arts in Statistics and Data Science at the Wharton School.

I study why people choose to exercise their right to vote and the ways in which election administration shapes political participation. As we have seen in recent years, how states conduct their elections has important effects on who casts a ballot. Thus, understanding election administration connects us to some of the deepest, and most profound, questions in politics – who has a voice in American democracy and why.

My dissertation consists of three related studies on how voters respond to changes in the costs of voting induced by election administration policies. I focus specifically on residentially mobile voters, as moving creates variation in voting costs. To do this, I introduce an innovative method to measure residential mobility using commercial databases of real estate deed transactions. I then use these data to make causal claims about how voting costs and state policies influence registration and turnout rates.

Beyond my dissertation, I am interested in how voting technology and poll worker training influence the rates at which voters successfully cast error-free ballots. I also have ongoing research examining how election administration policies impact voter confidence in the electoral process.

Before pursuing my Ph.D., I earned a Master of Arts in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from George Washington University. Additionally, I worked as a research assistant at the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration at George Washington University and as a regional organizing director during the 2016 general election.