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.​​