I am a Health Economist and will be joining the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth as an Assistant Teaching Professor of Economics, Health and Society, and Healthcare Administration starting in Fall 2025. My research focuses on the economics of unhealthy behaviors and the role of public policy in shaping individual decision-making. I am an experienced educator with a teaching portfolio that spans high school mathematics to university-level courses such as Principles of Microeconomics, Econometrics and Data Analytics, Labor Economics, and, most notably, Health Economics. 

I earned my Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Illinois Chicago, where my dissertation examined the economic and public health effects of tobacco control policies—specifically, Tobacco 21 laws, cigarette excise taxation, and smoking-related birth outcomes.