Welcome
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I am a PhD Candidate in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, a research associate at the Center on the Politics of Development and an affiliated student at the Institute of Governmental Studies. I am also a Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellow and an APSA Minority Fellow.
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I study Comparative Politics and Political Behavior, focusing on Sub-Saharan Africa. In particular, I am interested in the challenges of democratization efforts in post-conflict settings and weakly institutionalized democracies. My dissertation specifically examines the role of civil society organizations in shaping citizens' political behavior. My research has been supported by the West Africa Research Association and the Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley, the Center for African Studies at UC Berkeley, and featured on the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage.
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Prior to coming to Berkeley, I completed a Fulbright-Clinton Public Policy Fellowship in Côte d’Ivoire where I collaborated with the Ivorian Ministry of Education to evaluate the newly instated Human Rights and Citizenship Education curriculum for elementary and middle school-level students.
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I hold a dual-language Master's degree in International Affairs, Conflict Resolution and Civil Society Development from the American University of Paris and the Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Originally from North Carolina, I graduated from Elon University with a Bachelor's degree in International Studies, African concentration.
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Overall, I have experience living and working in France, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Senegal and I have also conducted fieldwork in Zambia.
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