I am a PhD candidate in the Travers Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where I am affiliated with the Berkeley Center for American Democracy, the Jack Citrin Center for Public Opinion Research, and the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues. During the 2025-26 academic year, I will be a visiting research affiliate in the Department of Sociology at New York University.

I study how social networks shape political mobilization and public opinion, with a substantive focus on social movements in the United States. Using a multi-method approach, my dissertation investigates the unexplored role of alternative civic organizations— countercultural, grassroots groups that seek change beyond dominant political institutions— in American politics; how they foster solidarity, how they transform solidarity into political capacity, and the forms of civic infrastructure that emerge as a result.

In addition to my core research agenda, I have also collaborated with the Forecasting Research Institute, the Center for Radical Innovation for Social Change, and Berkeley’s D-Lab, where I served as a Data Science Fellow during the 2024-25 academic year.

I received an M.A. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley (2024) with a concentration in American Politics. I received a B.A. in Politics (with Honors) and Sociology from New York University (2022), where I worked as a research assistant at The Center for Social Media and Politics. I was also previously an APSA Ralph Bunche Summer Institute Scholar (2021).