Hello 👋🏻 I hold a PhD in Media & Public Affairs from Louisiana State University (LSU), where I was an Instructor of Record from 2022-2025. My research focuses on storytelling, public relations, and propaganda.

My dissertation was funded by the John Maxwell Hamilton Fellowship for Media and Public Affairs Research. In the past, 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 also interned for the Mayor-President's office of the city of Baton Rouge.

More about me: I'm storyteller, accomplished educator, and a mixed-methods scholar 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 (Rev.com and speechtext.ai). I have strong abilities in writing, public speaking, and intercultural communication.

Originally from Texas ☀️ and hold an M.A. in mass communication from the University of Minnesota.