Hello 👋🏻 I'm a PhD candidate in Media & Public Affairs at the Manship School of Mass Communwasication at Louisiana State University (LSU). My research focuses on race in political ccommunication, propaganda, health inequality in Louisiana's Cancer Alley, and U.S. politics. 

My work currently addresses this question: In what ways has mass communication been used as a form of coercion to limit liberatory outcomes? 

As an interdisciplinary scholar, my research and teaching is informed by insights from across the social sciences, including mass communication, propaganda, public relations, political science, public health, history, and stratification economics. 

Originally from Texas, where I went to community college and then university, I went on to receive an M.A. in mass communication from the University of Minnesota. 

My dissertation is funded by the John Maxwell Hamilton Fellowship for Media and Public Affairs Research. In summer 2024, I interned for the Mayor-President's office of the city of Baton Rouge. In summer 2023, I was a Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the Samuel Du Bois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University. In summer 2022, I was a COMPASS Fellow in Media Policy at The Democracy Collaborative in D. C.