I am a researcher at RAND, where I work on strategy and defense analysis.

Before coming to RAND, I earned a PhD in political science from MIT, where I was a member of the Security Studies Program. My dissertation looked at how countries manage their economic relationships with their security competitors.

During graduate school, I spent a year at Harvard as a pre-doctoral research fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. I also served two stints as a RAND Summer Associate before I eventually joined full time.

Prior to graduate school, I graduated summa cum laude from Georgetown with a B.S. in Foreign Service and an M.A. in Security Studies.