I am a Ph.D. candidate in the department of Political Science Rutgers where I focus on Women and Politics and Comparative Politics. My research explores political representation and political parties at the intersection of age and gender. I am most interested in how young people make it to elected office and the ways that candidate recruitment and selection may be both an aged and gendered process. My dissertation research focuses specifically on the representation of young people in formal politics with a particular interest in the recruitment and selection of young candidates for political office in Scandinavia. During the 2021-2022 academic year, I was a guest researcher at the Department of Political Science at Gothenburg University where I conducted fieldwork for my dissertation.

In addition to my dissertation research, I am the lead graduate researcher on the Young Elected Leaders Project--a project aimed at gathering and disseminating data about young elected officials at all levels of government across the United States. Additionally, I am a founding member and secretary of the Youth Political Representation Research Network--a network of scholars and practitioners whose aim is to promote the representation of young adults in formal politics through research and practice.

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