​​​I'm an Assistant Professor of Government at Georgetown University. I study inequality and political representation in American lobbying and bureaucratic policymaking.

My book, Power to the Partners: Organizational Coalitions in Social Justice Advocacy (University of Chicago Press, 2025), documents how social and economic justice organizations strategically build coalitions to compensate for inequalities in the American lobbying landscape and evaluates the structures and characteristics of successful coalition work. My research has been published or is forthcoming in the American Political Science Review, the Policy Studies Journal, Politics, Groups, and Identities, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Interest Groups & Advocacy, and other outlets, and is supported by the Russell Sage Foundation.

​​​I hold a Ph.D. in Government from The University of Texas at Austin. Prior to joining the faculty at Georgetown, I was an Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.