Experience

2025-2026

Research Assistant

The Brookings Institution

Working under former FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler and former DOJ Antitrust Chief Bill Baer, helping with writing and research on AI Governance and Antitrust frameworks for a project to-be-revealed

2023-2025

First Hire/Data Associate

Milly Books (Fintech Startup)

First hire. Built and owned the end-to-end data stack (Postgres, dbt, Dagster, Metabase), defined core metrics from 0 → 1, and shipped analytics and pipelines that drove GTM decisions, seller engagement, and marketplace liquidity.

2021-2022

Market Research Intern

Xometry

Worked on platform economics and supply-demand modeling: segmenting buyers, diagnosing supply bottlenecks, and modeling price elasticity to make custom manufacturing markets more efficient and scalable.

Education

I did my bachelor's in economics at the University of Kentucky (2018–2022), spending the final year at the University of Zürich studying international fiscal policy. Then I completed my master’s at The London School of Economics and Political Science (2023–2024), focusing on emerging technology policy, comparative political economy, and public and social policy research methods.

Selected Research & Projects

Secret Brookings Project
2026 · (Coming Soon!)
Doing some very cool work that I'm excited to share but can't quite yet.
Enabling the Panopticon? GDPR, Power, and Workplace Surveillance
2024 · LSE Dissertation (Distinction)
Evaluates how effectively the GDPR protects employees from datafied, machine-learning-driven monitoring — and where enforcement, consent, and proportionality standards fall short.
U.S. Semiconductor Policy for AI Competitiveness
2024 · Policy Memo
Analyzes how U.S. semiconductor strategy shapes AI competitiveness and national security, weighing Taiwan risk, cost disadvantages, and uncertain AI compute trajectories.
Mapping U.S. Export Controls on Chokepoint Technologies
2024 · Research Project
Empirically examines whether BIS is increasingly targeting entities involved in chokepoint technologies, and what that implies for leverage over strategic supply chains.
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