I am a health economist and assistant professor of Health Policy and Management at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. I also have a secondary appointment in Pitt's Department of Economics, and am an affiliated faculty member with the Center for Pharmaceutical Policy and Prescribing, Medicaid Research Center, and the UPMC Aging Institute. I study access to health care for disadvantaged populations. My research primarily focuses on: (1) administrative burdens and market design in the Health Insurance Marketplaces created by the Affordable Care Act; and (2) the impacts of public policies, particularly cannabis legalization, on opioid-related health outcomes. I have expertise in causal inference, demand estimation, and geospatial measurement. My research has been published in journals such as The Journal of Health Economics, Health Affairs, and JAMA-Internal Medicine. I have received external grant funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIH), the Agency for Health Research and Quality (AHRQ), the National Institute for Health Care Management, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. My work has been cited by Vox, the Morning Consult, and Senator Elizabeth Warren.

I completed my Ph.D. in Health Services Research, Policy, and Administration with a focus in health economics from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. During my doctoral studies, I completed a health economics fellowship at the University of Chicago's Becker-Friedman Institute. Prior to my doctoral studies, I was a project manager at Epic Systems in Madison, WI. I completed a B.A. in economics from Capital University in Columbus, OH, during which time I studied abroad at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain. I was born and raised in the Paris of the Midwest: Cleveland, OH.