I am PhD Candidate at the Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago. I will join the Economics Department at the University of Arkansas as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2025.

I am an applied microeconomist researching social interactions and other forces that shape young people’s decisions around human capital formation. I use experiments and quasi-experiments paired with tools from econometrics and machine learning.

I am a Research and Policy Fellow at the Office of Federal Student Aid of the U.S. Department of Education. Before pursuing the PhD, I taught middle school math in Thoreau, New Mexico, was an Education Fellow at NYC Department of Education and served as a Research and IT Fellow at Gobabeb Research and Training Center in Namibia. These experiences inform my commitment to applied research that bridges theory and practice.