Come fall, I will be a Masters student at the University of Oxford in Politics Research, with an intended focus on labor economics and theory of work. I am currently conducting research with the Morehead-Cain Foundation on quantifying alumni career trajectories and legacies.

I studied American Political Economy (self-made major) and Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I will be a Barry Scholar at Oxford and was a Morehead-Cain Scholar at UNC. Generally, I’m drawn to bridging various gaps: the gap between empirics and theory, between economics and political science and philosophy, between political parties. 

current questions & loves

• Modeling career trajectories and life legacies. What makes a career particularly exceptional? What, if any, are the predictors of exceptional or meaningful careers? (Related to my current role with the Morehead-Cain Foundation)

• Voluntary vs. involuntary labor separations: firings vs. quits vs. retirements, and what they can tell us about economic health and distribution of socioeconomic opportunity

• Ethics, epistemological value, and (im)possibility of civil discourse

• Learning to play the cello, from scratch as an adult with absolutely no prior musical experience