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 and health politics in cities, local governance, informality, and public service provision. My research employs a multi-method approach.

I am currently a Graduate Student Fellow of the UVA Quantitative Collaborative and a Scholar of the Brown Climate Social Science Network. In 2022, I was a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellow of the US Department of Education. I earned an M.A. in Foreign Affairs from UVA in 2023. In 2025, I will be conducting dissertation fieldwork in Brazil as a Fulbright-Hays DDRA Fellow and a Visiting Scholar of the Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) School of Social Sciences. My work has been funded by the US Department of Education, Vanderbilt University Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies (CLACX), Harvard University David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, UVA Center for Global Innovation and Inquiry (CGII), UVA Quantitative Collaborative (QC), and others.

Before coming to UVA, I graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa 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 the 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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