I am currently a PhD student in Political Science at the University of Colorado Boulder, with concentrations in American politics and political theory. I previously graduated from the University of Texas at El Paso with a Master's degree in Political Science and a Bachelor's degree in Communication Studies. 

My research interests include Political Behavior, Political Communications, American Politics, Comparative Politics, Racial and Ethnic Politics, Social Media and Politics,  Judicial Politics, State Courts, Text as Data, Visual Images as Data, Qualitative and Quantitative Methods.

My work has been published in the Research Handbook of Judicial Politics and is currently in awaiting publication in The Encyclopedia of Political Communication.