Welcome!

I am a PhD candidate in Sociology at Brown University. My research focuses on demography, energy, climate and environment, development, and quantitative methods. I am the 2025 - 2026 Interdisciplinary Opportunities Fellow at Brown’s Population Studies and Training Center and am an affiliate of the Watson School of International and Public Affairs.

I study how poverty, environmental conditions, vital public infrastructure, and institutions interact to shape population dynamics and development globally. In my dissertation, I develop a novel high-frequency dataset to examine the distribution and effects of electricity rationing during acute energy crises in sub-Saharan Africa.

My research has been published in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics and in a development economics textbook. My work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, Brown’s Population Studies and Training Center, and the Watson School for International and Public Affairs.

My research is informed by more than a decade of professional experience as an applied statistician with UN organizations, US government, NGOs, and school districts.

Education

PhD, Sociology (Demography), Brown University (ABD)

MA in Sociology, Brown University (2023)

MS in Statistics, University of Texas - San Antonio (2014)

BS in Physics, University of Texas - Austin (2008)