I’m a PhD candidate at the University of Virginia Department of Politics. I study urban politics in cities of the Global South, with a regional focus on Latin America. My research interests center around environmental, housing, and health politics, local governance, informality, and public service provision. My research employs a multi-method approach. I am currently a 2025 Fulbright-Hays Fellow in Brazil,
where I am conducting fieldwork as a visiting scholar of the Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) School of Social Sciences and as an invited researcher at the Brazilian Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA). My work has been funded by the US Department of Education, the Vanderbilt University Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies (CLACX), the Harvard University David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, the Karsh Institute of Democracy, the UVA Center for Global Innovation and Inquiry (CGII), and others.
Before coming to UVA, I graduated with a B.A. in Public & Urban Affairs (concentration in Global Development) and B.A. in International Relations from Virginia Tech, where I was named Outstanding Senior for both the College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences and the School of Public & International Affairs. I have also previously worked in government intelligence research at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA).
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