Hello! I am currently a Visiting Instructor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of North Florida, where I teach courses in research methods and American politics. This position is a natural extension of my graduate work in the MPA program, where I earned Pi Alpha Alpha honors while balancing a full-time course load, a survey research project, and teaching responsibilities. I completed my B.A. in Political Science with a minor in History in 2022, becoming the first in my family to graduate from college.

Alongside teaching, I maintain an active research agenda in American political behavior and political psychology, with particular focus on how rhetoric shapes candidate evaluations and vote choice. I am currently a co–principal investigator on a conjoint experiment examining how rhetoric and policy positions influence evaluations of candidate extremity and moderation. Our survey, deployed through Prolific and supported by an internal grant, collected responses from 772 participants and generated 4,632 observations.

To analyze our data, I designed a reproducible pipeline in R that cleaned data, transformed variables, generated model diagnostics, and estimated average marginal component effects using OLS regression with respondent-clustered standard errors to address intra-respondent correlation. I also incorporated subgroup analyses to examine heterogeneous treatment effects. To ensure our results are not model dependent, I specified a Bayesian regression model with respondent-level random intercepts—functionally equivalent to clustered standard errors—with our posterior estimates replicating the results generated from our OLS model. 

I am currently drafting the manuscript for submission to a high-impact journal. Moving forward, I hope to expand my sample to political elites in order to study differences between elite and mass evaluations of candidate extremity.

These methodological strengths directly inform my teaching. During my final MPA semester, I was appointed as an adjunct instructor and taught Research Design for Political Scientists. With just three weeks to prepare, I earned an ISQ rating of 4.5/5 (4.73 trimmed mean) with a 41% response rate, above the departmental average. The following semester I successfully taught Research Design and Research Analysis, which led to my current appointment. In Fall 2025, I am teaching two sections of Research Analysis for Political Scientists, one section of Research Design for Political Scientists, and Introduction to American Government. In Research Analysis, I teach students the R programming language and statistical methods—both descriptive and inferential.

Beyond academia, I am active in leadership roles within the university and the Jacksonville community. I currently serve as a mayoral appointee on the City of Jacksonville’s TRUE Commission, which advises the city council and mayor on fiscal policy. I have also held leadership roles in local politics and UNF Student Government, and I have published op-eds in the Florida Times-Union (three) and the Tallahassee Democrat (one).

I also bring a working-class perspective which shapes both my research and teaching. After earning my GED, I relied on a Pell Grant and full-time employment to fund my undergraduate education. These experiences fuel my efforts to make political methodology and data science more accessible to students from underrepresented backgrounds, particularly those from poor, working-class, and non-traditional backgrounds.

Looking ahead, I plan to pursue a Ph.D. in Political Science with a focus on American politics and political methodology, with the long-term goal of securing a tenure-track position at an R1 university.