Assistant Professor, Public Policy and Administration, Department of Political Science
Affiliate, Appalachian Justice Research Center, UTK
Baker Expert Faculty Affiliate, Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy, UTK
Affiliate, Public Impact Research Accelerator
Invited Researcher, Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
I am an Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Administration in the Department of Political Science at the University of Tennessee and a Faculty Affiliate at the Appalachian Justice Research Center and the Public Impact Research Accelerator. My core program of research centers on housing instability—evictions, foreclosures, and homelessness—and how it contributes to and stems from social and economic inequality. I also study the impact of administrative burden on program equity and individual outcomes. I received a Ph.D. in Public Policy and Administration from the John Glenn College of Public Affairs at the Ohio State University in 2020 and completed postdocs at the John Glenn College of Public Affairs and the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity. I have nearly a decade of experience working in public policy, first for nonprofits that provided research, legislative, and best practices to elected officials, and later as a senior staff member at two state agencies. I served as the Outreach Director for the Ohio Department of Commerce from 2009-2010 before beginning work as a manager for Ohio's foreclosure prevention program at the Ohio Housing Finance Agency (OHFA). I worked in several roles at OHFA, managing two divisions and eventually serving as Director for the Office of Homeownership Preservation.
Ph.D. in Public Policy and Management
M.P.P. in Education, Social, & Family Policy
B.S. in Psychology
Affordable Housing Policy
Homelessness
Criminal Justice Policy
Race and Equity
Public Administrative/Management
Administrative Burden and Implementation
Stata, RStudio, SAS, SPSS
ArcMap, ArcGIS Online
NVivo
LaTex
Qualtrics