Welcome! 

I'm a Ph.D. Candidate at UC San Diego's political science department, and 2024 IGCC Dissertation Fellow with the UC Institute of Global Conflict and Cooperation.

My research interests span across international relations, migration studies, and comparative politics, with an emphasis on international cooperation and contentious politics. In my dissertation, I study the enactment of bilateral Cooperation Arrangements on Migration (CAMs), which provide resources and support to partner states, as an interaction among right-wing challenger parties and mainstream governments in Western democracies. I present a theory of foreign policy co-optation that suggests when and why governments appropriate such flexible foreign policy instruments to blunt the strength of their opposition. I additionally investigate the characteristics, prevalence, and outcomes of these arrangements in subsequent projects. In other projects, I look at the development of international cooperation on migration in the Global South. I am generally interested in international migration policy, populist-driven foreign policy, and dangerous co-dependencies among states.  
 
I hold a B.S. in Political Science: Data Analytics and an M.A. in Political Science from UC San Diego. I'm also a member of UC San Diego's REP Lab, a recipient of the San Diego and Cota Robles Fellowship, and a Junior Scholar at the Carnegie International Policy Scholar Consortium and Network (IPSCON). In my free time, I enjoy sketching and watching movies.​