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Education

• Ph.D., Political Science — University of Oklahoma (2026)
  • Concentration in Public Policy, Research Methods, American Government
• M.A., Political Science — University of Oklahoma (2022)
  • Concentration in Public Policy and Research Methods
• B.S., Political Science — Appalachian State University (2019)
  • Concentration in Legal Studies

Professional Experience

• Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation

• Summer/Adjunct Associate, The RAND Corporation

• Graduate Research Assistant, The Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis

• VSFS Graduate Student Assistant, U.S. Department of State - Office of Policy, Planning, and Resources

• VSFS Graduate Student Assistant, U.S. Department of State - Greening Diplomacy Initiative

• Census Field Supervisor, U.S. Census Bureau

• Address Analyst and Canvasser, U.S. Census Bureau

Supplemental Education

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)

  • Maximum Likelihood Estimation

  • Mathematics for Social Scientists

  • Regression Analysis II

• The Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research (IQMR)

  • Computational Text Analysis

  • Network Analysis

  • Bayesian Statistics

  • Comparative Historical Analysis

• The RAND Corporation

  • Forecasting Initiative Training

Research Interests

Space policy, science and technology policy, environmental policy, research methods, Natural Language Processing (NLP), machine learning, policy subsystems, public-private partnerships (P3s), policy process theories, policy analysis

Past and Present Affiliations

• Association for Public Policy and Management

• Alpha Gamma Delta

• American Political Science Association

• European Consortium for Political Research

• German Political Science Association

• Phi Alpha Delta

• Midwestern Political Science Association

• Southern Political Science Association

• Women Also Know Stuff

Conference and Symposium Attendance

• 2026

  • University of Colorado Denver, Center for Policy and Democracy - Virtual

• 2025

  • Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management - Seattle, Washington

  • American Political Science Association - Vancouver, Canada

  • International Conference on Public Policy - Chiang Mai, Thailand

  • Oklahoma Aerospace and Defense Innovation Institute Defense Symposium - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

• 2024

  • German Political Science Association Academic Convention - Göttingen, Germany

  • Conference on Policy Process Research - Syracuse, New York

  • Midwestern Political Science Association Annual Conference - Virtual

  • Southern Political Science Association Annual Conference - New Orleans, Louisiana

• 2022

  • Oklahoma Aerospace and Defense Innovation Institute Defense Symposium - Norman, Oklahoma