I received my Ph.D. in political science from Penn State University. Broadly, I am interested in study at the intersection of law, policy, inequality, and social movements, with a particular focus on elucidating how legal and political mechanisms drive social and political change. Throughout my work, I engage advanced approaches from computational social science, particularly with text-as-data, to create more theoretically appropriate and empirically robust measures and research designs that deepen our understanding of the role of law in American policymaking processes and the marginalization of groups within those processes. On this site, you can find more information on my current research, my prior work, and my teaching.