I am a Better Government Lab Research Fellow at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy, where I work with Don Moynihan, Pamela Herd, and Sebastian Jilke conducting administrative burdens research with the U.S. Social Security Administration and the U.S. General Services Administration’s Office of Evaluation Sciences. I am also a PhD Candidate in Political Science and an NSF Graduate Research Fellow at the University of Iowa, as well as an academic affiliate with the U.S. Office of Evaluation Sciences.

My research uses innovative methodological techniques to understand political determinants of access to health care and social welfare resources in the U.S. Specifically, I am interested in the interactive effects of policy design and administrative burdens on policy/program enrollment and how these effects vary by state.

My dissertation looks at how states’ decisions regarding administrative burden in Medicaid affect take-up in that state, and how this relationship may be moderated by state and local policy contexts. I use multilevel regression, imputation, and post-stratification to calculate a novel, nationwide dataset of Medicaid take-up, and I also compile a novel database of state’s Medicaid administrative measure and state Medicaid program design features. I was awarded the American Political Science Association’s 2022 Paul Volcker Award Junior Scholar Award for Public Administration for this dissertation research.