I am the Moreau Postdoctoral Fellow in the Political Science Department at the University of Notre Dame. I study race in American politics with a focus on recent Black electoral and social movement behavior. 

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My dissertation examines Black voter behavior in recent elections to understand shifts in voting patterns across local, state, and national contexts. My job market paper examines the recent decline in Black support for Democratic presidential candidates and finds that middle-aged voters, men, and those with conservative views on race and gender were most likely to swing away from Democrats in 2024.​ My second research area examines how the 2020 protests reshaped the Black Lives Matter movement by comparing protest strategies across older and newer chapters (forthcoming). ​In future work, I will further examine how changing social and economic attitudes interact with party strategy to increase partisan heterogeneity among Black voters. 

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My research has appeared in publications like Urban Studies and PS: Political Science & Politics, and has received media coverage in The New York Times.

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I earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from Emory University in 2026 and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Washington in 2019. Previously, I worked as a visual artist and bartender in Seattle, teaching drawing and painting at the Gage Academy of Art, Seattle Art Museum, and the Northwest African American Museum.