I am a Ph.D. Candidate in Public Policy at Harvard University. My overarching research agenda uses quantitative and qualitative methods to investigate how social and institutional contexts shape political behavior.

In my dissertation, I address these questions by examining how the dispersion of immigrants to non-traditional destinations in the United States affects processes of civic and political incorporation. New immigrant destinations offer a unique opportunity to observe how the characteristics of a place and its institutions shape immigrant political incorporation from the ground up. My dissertation uses new questions from the Current Population Survey to demonstrate that immigrant civic participation rates differ across contexts of settlement, then employs four comparative case studies of new destination cities to identify previously overlooked contextual mechanisms that shape immigrant political incorporation.

For research support, I am grateful to the Zeit Foundation's Bucerius Scholarship in Migration Studies, and Harvard University's Center for American Political Studies, Hauser Center for Non-Profit Organizations, Saguaro Seminar for Civic Engagement, and Taubman Center for State and Local Government.