I am an Assistant Professor of Economics in the School of Economic, Political, and Policy Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas. I received my Ph.D. in Economics from the Department of Economics at Cornell University in 2021. I was also affiliated with the Department of Policy Analysis and Management (now part of the Brooks School of Public Policy). My research is primarily concerned with the spillover effects of risky health behaviors and crime, which means my work lies at the intersection of health economics, public economics, and the economics of crime. My research has been funded by Arnold Ventures.

I have been the lead editor of the American Society of Health Economists (ASHEcon) newsletter since 2022. In 2023 I co-founded, with Ben Harrell, the Texas Early-Career Health Economist Network (TEXHEN). I am also a coorganizer of the Texas Economics of Crime Workshop (TxECW) along with Cody Tuttle and Jamein Cunningham.

Prior to graduate school, I was a Senior Research Assistant in the Fiscal Analysis section at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington, D.C. I graduated from Colby College in Waterville, Maine with a B.A. in Economics and Government.