Curriculum Vitae
Research Experience
2022 - Present
Research Assistant, UKY
A third year PhD student specializing in higher education policy, state scholarship, human capital development, labor market outcomes, causal machine learning, and student migration.
2014
Summer Research Symposium, CSUSB
Engaged in a summer research symposium with Dr. MacDonald and two other undergraduate students. Studied the impact of government expenditure on economic growth using Vector AutoRegression (VAR).
Education
2022 - Present
PhD, Martin School of Public Policy and Administration
University of Kentucky
Currently pursuing a PhD with a research focus on higher education policy, economics of education, public finance and budgeting, and labor economics.
2015 - 2017
MA in Economics,
University of Houston
2011 - 2014
BA in Economics,
Cal State University San Bernardino
Research Skills
Proficient in causal machine learning, quantitative data analysis, and policy evaluation.
Python
Stata
Proficient in data cleaning, merging across multiple administrative datasets, quantitative data analysis, and policy evaluation.