Hello! I'm a Political Science Ph.D. student at Washington University in St. Louis studying International Relations and Methodology. I am also a Dean's Distinguished Graduate Fellow and work on compositional modeling with the Dynamic Pie team at Texas A&M University. My research focuses on the diffusion and escalation of conflict and political violence. I attained a  Bachelor of Science in International Relations, Bachelor of Arts in Ethics and Public Policy, and a Masters of Political Science from the University of Iowa.