I am a PhD Candidate in the Department of Political Science at UCLA, where I study American Politics and Methodology. My research examines how citizens respond to political signals—particularly elections that signal sharp policy swings—and how political and institutional contexts shape behavior, markets, and policy implementation.

 

Much of my work examines the politics of firearm policy, the spatial patterns of gun violence and the role of public policy in mitigating it, and how mass shootings shape the behaviors of elected officials.

 

At UCLA, I am a member of the PHACT Lab and the Practical Causal Inference Lab, and an affiliate with the California Center for Population Research.