Hello and welcome! I am an Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Diego. I study American politics with a focus on participation, representation, race and ethnic politics, and inequality. In 2016-2017, was a Democracy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School. I received my Ph.D. in Public Policy and Political Science from the University of Michigan. I also have a M.A. in Political Science from the University of Michigan and a B.A. in Political Science from Howard University.