I study Gender and Politics with a regional focus on American and Canadian politics. My research focuses on the intersection of parenthood in politics, candidate emergence and political psychology. I work with voter behavior surveys and experiments to analyze how gender, parenthood, and race influence voter perceptions of political candidates. At Rutgers I work as a graduate research assistant for the Center for American Women in Politics (CAWP), and have helped teach the intro course Law and Politics. Prior to grad school I worked in government communications in Canada, have an MA in Political Science from Memorial University and BA in Communications from Simon Fraser University.