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.

I have been the lead editor of the American Society of Health Economists (ASHEcon) newsletter since 2022, and a co-editor since 2021. I served as program chair for the "Alcohol, Tobacco, Sugar, and Illegal Substances" program area for the 2023 ASHEcon conference. In 2023 I also co-founded, with Ben Harrell, the Texas Early-Career Health Economist Network (TEXHEN).

I am also interested in efforts to diversify the economics profession, make the field of economics more inclusive, and reduce information asymmetries around opportunities for professional development. At Cornell, I co-organized a discussion on women in economics in the spring of 2018. I also co-organized the Speaking Economics symposium in 2019. In the fall of 2019, I co-founded Diversity in Cornell Economics to formalize continuing efforts at fostering diversity at Cornell and in the profession. To help reduce information asymmetries in the profession, I co-created (with Barton Willage) a list of economics conferences with dates, deadlines, etc. I've also compiled a tutorial of sorts on How I Use EconTwitter. I have served as a mentor for both virtual and in-person Ph.D. student mentoring workshops.

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. from 2012-2015. I graduated from Colby College in Waterville, Maine in 2012 with a B.A. in Economics and Government.