I am a doctoral candidate at Northeastern University in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice.

Education:

My scholarship focuses on violence, with an emphasis on homicide and mass violence. I utilize quantitative and computational methodologies to investigate the contextual determinants of violence, as well as behavioral responses to and public perceptions of violence.

As a graduate researcher at Northeastern, I have contributed to multiple externally funded projects, including a National Institute of Justice grant examining the trends, nature,  correlates, and prevention of mass public shootings in America and the AP News/USA Today/Northeastern University Mass Killing Database. 

I am especially interested in media coverage of violence—specifically,  I am interested in how the circumstances surrounding a violent incident influence how the media reports on it, how this reporting affects people's perceptions of violence, and how those perceptions can impact individual behaviors. My dissertation utilizes topic modeling, a machine learning technique, to examine the framing of mass public shootings by politicians, the press, and the public. 

I have been the instructor of record for both topical criminology courses and interdisciplinary statistics courses.  Through pedagogy rooted in intersectionality, I aim to equip students with a comprehensive set of tools to develop critical questions, create and evaluate empirical evidence, and effectively communicate complex ideas in each of my courses. I view the classroom as a dynamic environment where students can harness their intellectual curiosity for transformative action.