Today, I work at USCIS at the intersection of technology and policy, developing tools and advocating for policies and processes to make refugee and asylum seeker admissions fairer and more efficient.

In 2016, I was a founding member of the International Rescue Committee’s Research & Development lab, where I built software tools for refugees and resettlement caseworkers in the U.S., piloted education and employment programs in refugee camps in Jordan and Tanzania, researched treatment and prevention of malnutrition in West Africa, and advocated at the Annual Tripartite Consultations on Resettlement in Geneva.

In 2021, I graduated from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, where I wrote a master’s thesis on climate migration, and worked alongside the International Office on Migration on how the law might be used to benefit climate migrants.

In 2021, I was the Director of Development for the Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project, a policy, advocacy, and technology organization led by over half a million asylum seekers.

I also have research interests in the history of money and finance, public funding for the arts, and macroeconomics.

Selected Policy Writing & Presentations

Data Standards and Ethics in Humanitarian Aid, Harvard Kennedy School

Environmental Migrants: Challenges and Opportunities in Their Protection and Rights, International Organization for Migration Report