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I received my doctorate in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where my research focused on strategies to improve citizen trust and cooperation with the police in countries with weak rule of law. My dissertation involved a large-scale field experimental evaluation of the impact of the Liberian National Police’s (LNP) community policing program on citizens’ trust and compliance with the police, as well as their support for extra-legal forms of justice such as vigilantism and mob violence. In other research, I studied the political causes and consequences of the 2014 Ebola epidemic in West Africa, the drivers of altruistic hosting behavior towards refugees, and the impact of bureaucratic bias among police officers on access to justice. Methodologically, I addressed these topics using a combination of field experiments, survey experiments, and statistical analysis of survey and administrative data.
Since completing my PhD in 2019, I have dedicated my career to generating policy-relevant research to inform decision-making. As a Senior Research, Education, and Training Manager at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT, I led courses on experimental policy evaluation for practitioners, policymakers, and online graduate students. From 2021 to 2025, I served as a Technical Director at Social Impact, where I applied statistical and data science methods to data from experimental, quasi-experimental, and observational studies, generating high-impact research reports and actionable recommendations for federal government policymakers.