I am a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at Emory University and am on the 2025–26 academic job market. I research the recent causes of generational partisan shifts among Black American voters.

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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 (revise and resubmit). ​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 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.