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Welcome! I am a lead researcher (previously, postdoctoral scholar) at the Development Innovation Lab at the University of Chicago. My research examines how communities manage violence, climate volatility, and development challenges in the Global South, with a regional focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. My broader interests include exploring how to design innovative randomized evaluations to better inform development programming. I have conducted field research in Nigeria, Uganda, Kenya, India, and Guatemala and have collaborated or consulted on projects for Mercy Corps, USAID, and DAI. I received my PhD in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley in August 2022, and also hold a position as a non-resident affiliate at the Center on the Politics of Development at the University of California, Berkeley.
Prior to graduate school, I worked for Innovations for Poverty Action in Uganda and Kenya for over three years managing studies on micro-savings, health and governance, and technology diffusion. I also was a Research Manager at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University where I helped design and conduct several RCTs on voter turnout in the US. I hold an M.A. in Political Science from Leiden University and a B.A. in Political Science from Wake Forest University. CV: 
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