Biography

Growing up in Tallahassee, Florida, I asked way too many questions. In college, I realized curiosity could be a career. I learned about the practice of journalism at the Yale Daily News and CNN. My love of journalism also shaped my academic pursuits and I began focusing my independent research on the successes and failures of American journalism. In 2015, I graduated from Yale with a double BA in History and Global Affairs (Security Studies). After college, I worked as a production assistant at CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 and freelanced in Japan before going to Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship to study Modern Middle Eastern Studies. After receiving my MPhil, I worked as an editor at Foreign Affairs magazine in New York. At Cambridge, my PhD focuses on the narrative politics of the Iran Nuclear Deal. More broadly, I am interested in tensions between the political and technical dimensions of diplomacy and how stories about other states emerge and develop in the American public sphere.

Previous Education

Yale University
University of Oxford