I am a joint education and political science PhD candidate at the University of Pennsylvania in the Education, Culture, and Society division of the Graduate School of Education and the political theory department in the School of Arts and Sciences.

I examine philanthropy—by philanthropic foundations and corporations—as an (insufficient) mechanism of redistribution or redress that exposes tensions within liberal democracies otherwise committed to ideals of egalitarianism.

Using empirical political theory, American Political Development, American Political Economy, and philosophical inquiry, my work explores the impact and stakes of private actors in public institutions. My focus in on the privatization of public education in particular, where privatization intersects with efforts to educate students for career readiness and work.