About Me

My research focuses on community engagement in climate adaptation planning. I seek to understand if, how, and when participation improves sustainability outcomes, residential satisfaction, and overall resilience. I am also interested in how scales of governance interact and how to reduce friction among them in the adaptation process, as well as how experiences with natural disasters affect views towards climate adaptation in light of preexisting political beliefs. More broadly, I study the complexities of climate-induced displacement and mobility as adaptation.

I’m a doctoral student in public policy at the University of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government.

Prior to Oxford, I worked to connect academic research to policymakers around the world, leading an interdisciplinary research theme on migration, urbanization, and climate change at the University of Pennsylvania’s global public policy hub.

I also served as a Fulbright Public Policy Fellow with Malawi’s Department of Refugees, building a more inclusive policymaking structure for their Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework pilot and researching urban integration practices. With the Social Science Research Council’s African Peacebuilding Network, I worked to fund and publish research by African academics and practitioners as part of decolonizing academia around peacebuilding in Africa. While completing my master’s degree, I supported the University of Cambridge’s Centre of Governance and Human Rights and provided research assistance to Dr Sharath Srinivasan. Previously, I served two terms as an AmeriCorps member in disaster response with the American Red Cross and community development with Public Narrative in Chicago.

I received an MPhil in International Relations and Politics with Distinction from the University of Cambridge as a Gates Cambridge Scholar, and a BA in International Relations and Hispanic Studies from the University of Pennsylvania, Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude.

I’m a proud Philadelphian and lover of bagels, pizza, and most animals.