I help launch academic careers through innovative academic programming and skill-building workshops. I am passionate about diversity and inclusion and fervently believe that a diverse research workforce is an optimal research workforce. Since 2017, I have had the privilege of working at multiple units at Brown University including the Graduate School and The Leadership Alliance.
Prior to joining Brown, I was a member of the Tobin Project, where I fostered multi-year research initiatives, managed their Graduate Student Fellowship and created their Prospectus Development Workshop. Speaking of pedagogy – it’s tough to keep me out of the classroom. I have held teaching fellowships at Duke University as well as Humboldt University in Berlin. I received my Ph.D. and Certification for Teaching Politics from the Department of Political Science at Duke. While there, I was also affiliated with the Kenan Institute of Ethics.
When I have time away from collaborating on interdisciplinary projects or teaching, I keep an active research agenda on ethics of political violence, threat assessment and various topics in comparative political theory.
I live in Warwick, RI. I was born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, and have very strong opinions about where to get a great cheesesteak. Feel free to contact me if you want to talk desert island books, classical music, or be subjected to some really terrible puns. That goes double if you are a German, Italian, or Spanish speaker – I need the practice!