Welcome!  I am an Associate Professor of Government at Colby College.  My book, Building Participatory Institutions in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2019), examines the trajectories of national frameworks for participatory policymaking in Brazil and Colombia. I am currently completing a book that analyzes the politics of urban security interventions and the rights of marginalized groups in Bogotá. I am member of the editorial committee of the journal Comparative Politics, responsible for manuscripts on Latin America.

Prior to coming to Colby, I was a Democracy Fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School.  I completed my Ph.D. at UC Berkeley’s Travers Department of Political Science, an M.P.P. from UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy, and a bachelor’s degree from Carleton College, where I was a first-generation-to-college student.