I am currently a Research Assistant Professor in the Martin School of Public Policy and Administration at the University of Kentucky. I completed my Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) in May 2020.
I study topics in public finance and budgeting, economics of education, labor economics, and development economics. My most recent research is primarily concerned with postsecondary education and transitions to workforce, state and local public finance, and education finance and policy.
I was selected as Emerging Education Policy Scholar in 2021. I was a visiting research fellow at the Social Science Research Institute (SSRI) at Duke University from 2018 to 2020. I worked as a research assistant at the University of Illinois Institute of Government and Public Affairs (IGPA) on projects such as Fiscal Futures Project and Illinois Teachers' Retirement System from 2016 to 2020.