Experience

Government and Policy Analysis

2026–
Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Tobin Center for Economic Policy
Develop and maintain microsimulation models producing estimates of the revenue, distributional, and macroeconomic effects of federal tax and transfer policy proposals, supporting congressional and public use.
2025
Vinson Fellow, Workforce and Economic Development
Benchmarked rural Georgia labor-market conditions against peer regions using FRED and Georgia DOL data, identifying occupational supply-demand gaps. Turned the analysis into a county-level development strategy presented to 50+ local-government practitioners.
2025
Summer Analyst
Estimated damages in an environmental land-loss lawsuit and a software IP dispute, applying royalty-base modeling and analysis of public financial records and government data. Built the underlying datasets and econometric analyses used in expert reports for federal proceedings, and fact-checked tables, exhibits, and footnotes before submission.
2024–25
Virtual Student Federal Service Intern, Global Engagement Center
Analyzed foreign influence operations by Chinese, Iranian, and Russian state actors, mapping how local news ecosystems were repurposed as disinformation distribution networks. Translated content-resharing datasets into intelligence reports disseminated to embassies and GEC analysts.
2024
Intern, Division of Economic and Risk Analysis, Office of Corporate Finance
Built a dataset of foreign-private-issuer disclosures spanning 50+ countries and $9.0T in market capitalization, and directed a 100+ paper literature review. Acknowledged in the resulting white paper, which informed rulemaking on FPI disclosure obligations.
2023–24
Legislative Fellow, Representative Spencer Frye
Drafted policy memoranda and analyses on tax and energy legislation; tracked bill progression, amendments, and floor votes across a full Georgia legislative session for caucus use.

University Research

2025–26
Research Assistant, Management Information Systems
Constructed a panel of 1.2M+ civil dockets across all U.S. federal district courts by scraping and cleaning in R, and produced visualizations estimating how AI diffusion shapes litigation rates and disclosure. Designed a mock job-application site in Qualtrics for an experiment on how algorithmic evaluation affects labor-market behavior.
2023–26
Lab Member, Crisis Insights and Analytics Lab
Fielded surveys (500+ respondents) and semi-structured interviews with communications practitioners across six countries, managing IRB protocols and registration. Contributed quantitative and qualitative analysis to peer-reviewed publications and international conference presentations.
2022–23
Research Assistant, CPC Map Project
Collected, verified, and standardized facility-level data for a national directory of 2,500+ crisis pregnancy centers, enabling downstream geographic access-to-care and policy research.