I'm a rising fourth-year PhD student at the Humphrey School, where I research how public policies and institutions affect inequality and discrimination. Specifically, as a labor economist, I study how labor unions protect workers in labor markets where employers enjoy disproportionate bargaining power. I'm originally from Broward County, Florida, and before coming to Minnesota I received bachelors degrees in economics and international affairs from the George Washington University in Washington, DC. During and after undergrad, I worked in an after-school youth center as a "jack of all trades," cooking snacks, keeping attendance, running billiards tournaments, and teaching music production classes. In my free time, I enjoy biking and producing music, and I'm involved in local community organizing.

This is my second summer as a JSI instructor and I'm excited to delve into applied economics with this year's JSI cohort! I hope to contribute to a fun and intellectually stimulating learning environment here at JSI.

I started my PhD studies in the Applied Economics department in fall 2020. Before commencing my studies, I worked in tax administration for eight years. My field of research is in environmental and natural resources economics as well as public economics. My research has focused on finding how degradation to the environment affects rural households in Sub-Saharan Africa. I have also worked on investigating the effectiveness of tax policies on tax compliance and evasion.