Appointments

Faculty Director of Academic Programs in Policy Practice, Assistant Teaching Professor, Georgetown McCourt School of Public Policy (current)

Postdoctoral Researcher, National Student Support Accelerator/Stanford Accelerator for Learning (2023-2025)

Lecturer, Public Policy Department, Stanford University (2023-2024)

Education

PhD, Educational Policy and the Sociology of Education, Stanford University (2023)

MA, Sociology, Stanford University (2022)

MPP, Public Policy, Stanford University (2017)

MA, Education: Policy Organization and Leadership Studies, Stanford University (2017)

BA, Government, Harvard College (2011)

Overview

I am a Faculty Director and Assistant Teaching Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. I oversee and build programs that allow our students to leverage the DC policy landscape to deepen their educational experiences. I currently lead the McCourt Policy Innovation Lab.

My research agenda focuses on the pragmatic and lived complexities of highly privatized and decentralized urban school districts. I study this through the implementation of large-scale learning initiatives, district budgeting and contract processes, and school governance issues. As a postdoctoral researcher at the National Student Support Accelerator/Stanford Accelerator for Learning, I worked with Dr. Susanna Loeb to study the implementation and scaling of policies supporting High-Impact Tutoring and the recovery of school systems after the initial onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. My dissertation drew from fourteen months of ethnographic fieldwork of education governance meetings in New Orleans to assess the democratic consequences of the post-Katrina all-charter system. My research has been funded by the NaEd/Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, the Stanford Graduate Fellowship, and the Institute of Education Sciences Training Grant.

My work has been published in Teacher’s College Record, Urban Education, Education Finance and Policy, Educational Policy, Education Evaluation and Policy Analysis, and Theory and Research in Education.

I have also served as a lecturer in the Stanford Public Policy Program. In recognition of my exceptional instructional abilities and dedication to her students, I recently received the Walter J. Gores Award, Stanford’s highest teaching honor, given to one graduate student instructor at the university every year. Before graduate studies, I was a math teacher and college counselor at Edna Karr High School, the pride of New Orleans’ West Bank.