About Me

I am a first year cohort member of the Northern Illinois University Master of Public Administration program serving as a Managerial Intern for the Village of Lake Villa.

I graduated in 2025 from Northern Illinois University with a B.S. in Mathematical Sciences. I have presented original research at the Midwest Political Science Association and am a member of ILCMA, ICMA, and ASPA.

I am generally interested in the Social Science methods, in my undergraduate I minored in Political Science where I focused on International Relations. My panel presentation and associated paper proposed a network based measure of dyadic allyship between nation-states.

I have an intermediate understanding of R with experience in descriptive statistics, interactive plots and maps, Shiny applications, regression analysis and hypothesis testing, introductory descriptive network analysis, supervised and unsupervised text as data, and more.

Within Public Administration my primary research interests focus on the policy proliferation process and the quality of electoral representation at the local level. In particular I am looking into expanding upon the standard understanding of urban to suburban to rural policy proliferation as well as if and how policies for extreme contexts proliferate to other municipalities in a similar context regardless of legal, cultural, and structural differences. The main context I examine elector representation is in college towns since students represent an incredibly weak voting bloc with significant costs and benefits for municipalities while generally being low income renters (they effectively wedge traditional opinions by land owners and local government regarding service provision).

As a public servant my focus lies on what is requested and required of me. Currently I am: Applying my background in self-hosting to a website redesign for Lake Villa; be filling the role of a permit coordinator; conducting comparative salary and benefits analysis; answering resident questions. For the website redesign I will be emphasizing accessibility and transparency with the aims of developing tools and processes to maintain those values.