I am a recent graduate from Texas A&M University with a BS in Political Science. I will start my PhD in Political Science at UC Berkeley in the fall of 2024. Please view my research interest page here to learn more about my specific interests.
I have had the privilege to also participate in multiple research opportunities during my time at Texas A&M. In collaboration with Dr. Michelle Taylor-Robinson, I co-authored a book chapter on the appointment of women in Latin American executive cabinets as a response to corruption. The handbook that this chapter is for is currently in the finishing steps of publication. I was also invited back by Dr. Taylor-Robinson to co-author, along with Texas A&M Ph.D. student Duncan Christensen, a paper on a similar topic. For this paper, we kept our same hypothesis of women being more likely to be appointed during times of corruption, but now applied to global comparative governments and considered the variation of many different regime-type categories that exist on various data we used for our empirical analysis. This current working paper was presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference in Chicago, IL in April 2023. We are revising our analysis after receiving wonderful comments and plan to send this paper for publication. In the fall, I will be participating in an original research project with a peer mentor as part of a research fellowship with the Society for Political Methodology.
An additional part of this research fellowship involved me and 7 other fellows attending the first session of the ICPSR Summer Program. This well-recognized and world-renowned summer program allowed me to participate in courses that have both solidified skills I have learned throughout undergrad and introduced me to an abundance of new ideas, skills, and methods to further my studies in political science. The courses I took during the first session were Rational Choice Theory of Politics & Society, Statistics & Data Analysis I, and Introduction to the LaTeX Text Processing System.
An additional experience that has shaped my career has been my employment at the Texas A&M University Writing Center. My position as a peer writing consultant gave me the chance to work both individually with students and in larger settings such as small groups and full classes in the English department. I have gained three College Reading and Learning Association tutoring certificates during my employment. The UWC also allowed me to travel to Vancouver, BC to attend the International Writing Center Association Annual Conference in 2022 and present a solo-authored research project. This project focused on the ethics and uses of AI in university and writing center settings and allowed writing center administrators to expand their perspective on AI in relation to academia with a perspective from an undergraduate who has regular conversations with peers about AI and its potential as a tool and weapon.
Outside of the academic realm, I enjoy reading, meditating, playing the bass guitar, and watching films.
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