About Me
 
I grew up in Overland Park, Kansas and went to the University of Kansas. After that I headed to D.C. to work for a chemical trade association. In 2008, I started my graduate degree at the Wilf Family Department of Politics at NYU. While at NYU I worked for Governor Paterson and completed my dissertation with the guidance of Jonathan Nagler, Sanford Gordon, Pat Egan, and Howard Rosenthal.
 
I now reside on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and work as an assistant professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey.

When I'm not in the classroom or behind a computer you can find me running the streets of New York or working on community clean ups and local politics in my neighborhood.