Hello 👋🏻 I'm a PhD candidate in Media & Public Affairs at the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University (LSU), where for the last three years I've also been an Instructor of Record. My research focuses on political communication, propaganda, and storytelling, and my dissertation investigates each of these in Louisiana's Cancer Alley. 

My dissertation is funded by the John Maxwell Hamilton Fellowship for Media and Public Affairs Research. I have held a Pre-Doctoral Fellowship at the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University and a COMPASS Fellowship in Media Policy at The Democracy Collaborative in Washington, D.C. I have also interned for the Mayor-President's office of the city of Baton Rouge.

More about me: I'm storyteller and accomplished educator and mixed-methods researcher with expertise in academia, policy, and government. I have three years of field experience in Cancer Alley, Louisiana, and three years of university teaching experience across six courses. I'm proficient in multimedia editing (Adobe Premiere Pro), data analysis (R, Stata, Atlas.ti), technical formatting (LATEX, Markdown), and interview transcription (speechtext.ai). I have strong abilities in writing, public speaking, and intercultural communication.

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.