Welcome! 

I'm a Ph.D. Candidate at the Department of Political Science at the University of California San Diego.

I study international cooperation, migration governance, and contentious politics at home and abroad. My current work suggests when and why governments appropriate flexible foreign policy instruments to blunt the strength of right-wing political challengers, drawing on an original cross-national dataset of bilateral security Cooperation Arrangements on Migration (CAMs). In related projects, I study the diffusion and political consequences of migration cooperation in the Global South and the role of migration in international affairs. I hold a B.S. in Political Science/Data Analytics and an M.A. in Political Science from the University of California San Diego.

I'm also a member of UC San Diego's REP Lab, a 2024-2025 IGCC Dissertation Fellow with the UC Institute of Global Conflict and Cooperation, a recipient of the San Diego and Cota Robles Fellowship, and a 2023-2024 Junior Fellow at the Carnegie International Policy Scholar Consortium and Network (IPSCON).