About Me

I enjoy a wide variety of activities when I'm not working on economics! In particular, I am an avid skier (on the left is a clip of me enjoying a particularly deep powder day in the Utah backcountry!), play soccer, and hike as often as I can. I also coach my hometown's high school debate team, which I am an alumni of. Debate was a formational activity for me and it is important to me to give back to the programs and institutions that have helped me develop as a researcher and person.

At Purdue I was an officer in the Krannert Doctoral Student Association and served as president during my fourth year. While in office, I made it an objective to help integrate new students into the program so that they can receive valuable advice and start building connections within the department as early as possible. To advance this objective, I created a new first year mentoring program to match new students with upper years who have similar academic and personal interests. I also created a new professional development day where speakers are invited to discuss important attributes of a complete Ph.D. candidate beyond developing research skills.

I was born and raised in rural Wyoming, which means that any city I visit is 'the big city' to me! However, I have French citizenship through my parents and was lucky enough to travel extensively throughout Europe while visiting my family.

I also have a dog named Chelsea (yes after the soccer club!). She is a 5 year old goldendoodle and is more than enough to keep me busy on my breaks and in the evenings! We love going on walks and playing fetch together, plus chasing the occasional squirrel.