I am a Ph.D. candidate in Population Studies and Social Policy in the Office of Population Research and the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. I received my B.A. in Economics and Political Science from the University of Notre Dame in 2015. I was born and raised in Kenosha, WI.

I also work as a Graduate Research Assistant in The Eviction Lab at Princeton University. Before embarking on my Ph.D., I spent three years as a health policy research assistant at Mathematica in Ann Arbor, MI. 

I study integration, housing, and inequality, with a particular focus on the role of housing policies in fostering integrated communities and promoting ethnoracial and socioeconomic equity. In my current research, I study integrated neighborhoods, investigate the consequences of policies that impede integration for impoverished neighborhoods, and explore how housing policies - primarily, zoning and land use policies - can promote residential integration. Through this work, I (along with my adviser, Matthew Desmond) created and made publicly available the National Zoning and Land Use Database, a database of zoning and land use policies covering the period between 2019-2022 for over 2,600 municipalities across the country.

My research agenda seeks to further our understanding of how policies promoting integration can advance equity, improve intergroup relations, and nurture social cohesion within and across communities around the globe. My other research interests are interdisciplinary and span urban planning, migration, the nexus between housing and education policy, intergroup contact, measures of social cohesion, and community-based participatory research. Most of my current work involves quantitative and spatial analysis, but I am also interested in mixed-methods approaches that combine qualitative as well as experimental and quasi-experimental methods to study these topics and inform social policy.

My dissertation has received the 2023 Irving Louis Horowitz Award from the Horowitz Foundation for the overall most outstanding project. See my CV and Research page for more information about my published work and ongoing projects.