Experience
Research Experience
Tobin Center for Economic Policy Pre-Doctoral Fellow
Advisor: Natasha Sarin
The Budget Lab, Yale University, New Haven, CT, Jul 2026–present
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.
Research Assistant, Management Information Systems
Advisor: Akshat Lakhiwal
Terry College of Business, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, Mar 2025–May 2026
Constructed a panel of 1.2M+ civil dockets across all U.S. federal district courts via scraping and cleaning in R; produced visualizations estimating how AI diffusion shapes litigation rates, disclosure. Designed a mock job-application site in Qualtrics for an experiment examining how algorithmic evaluation affects labor-market behavior.
Crisis Insights and Analytics Lab Member
Advisor: Yan Jin
Grady College, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, Feb 2023–May 2026
Created and fielded surveys (500+ respondents) and semi-structured interviews with communications practitioners across six countries, managing IRB protocols and registration. Contributed quantitative and qualitative empirical analysis to peer-reviewed publications and presentations given at major international conferences.
Research Assistant, CPC Map Project
Advisor: Andrea Swartzendruber
College of Public Health, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, Sep 2022–Feb 2023
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.
Policy and Industry Experience
Vinson Fellow, Workforce and Economic Development
Carl Vinson Institute of Government, Athens, GA, Aug–Dec 2025
Benchmarked rural Georgia labor-market conditions against peer regions using FRED and Georgia DOL data, identifying occupational supply-demand gaps. Synthesized data into county-level development strategy presented to 50+ local-government practitioners.
Summer Analyst
Analysis Group, Washington, DC, Jun–Aug 2025
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 datasets, produced econometric and financial analyses used in expert reports for federal proceedings. Fact-checked and verified tables, exhibits, and footnotes in expert reports prior to submission.
Division of Economic and Risk Analysis Intern, Office of Corporate Finance
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, DC, May–Jul 2024
Built a dataset of foreign-private-issuer (FPI) disclosures spanning 50+ countries and $9.0T in market capitalization; directed a 100+ paper literature review. Earned acknowledgment in a white paper that directly informed rulemaking on FPI disclosure obligations.
Virtual Student Federal Service Intern, Global Engagement Center
U.S. Department of State, Remote, Aug 2024–Jan 2025
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, GEC analysts.
Legislative Fellow, Representative Spencer Frye
Georgia House of Representatives (HD-122), Athens, GA, Aug 2023–May 2024
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.