Appointments

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

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 postdoctoral researcher at the National Student Support Accelerator/Stanford Accelerator for Learning, working with Dr. Susanna Loeb. I use qualitative and mixed methods 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 research agenda also focuses on the political complexities of highly privatized and decentralized urban school districts. My dissertation draws 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. I am a recipient of the NaEd/Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, the Stanford Graduate Fellowship, and the Institute of Education Sciences Training Grant. My work has been published in Urban Education, 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.

Note: I am currently completing my postdoc remotely in New Orleans to extend my dissertation work into a book proposal about how privatization has affected the longer-term trajectories of school districts. I am on the academic job market during the 2024-2025 academic year. Please reach out if you are interested in connecting!