Biography

Ninety percent of a child's brain develops by age five. Investment in quality early education services has a higher economic and social return than investment in education services at any other age. And yet, early education interventions are rarely funded at-scale. Of those that do exist, few are understood by their mechanisms of effect or differential effectiveness across subpopulations. For my dissertation, I plan to address these issues by evaluating two large-scale parenting programs in the UK (VIPP-SD) and Brazil (Primeira Infancia Melhor; PIM). My hope is that evaluation findings can be leveraged to inform service delivery and program targeting (PIM) and broaden the evidence-base of these interventions to more distal child outcomes including self-regulation. Prior to Cambridge, I worked at the Harvard David Rockefeller Center in Sao Paulo, and fellow with the Mayor of Baton Rouge on the city's Cradle to K Parenting Program.

Previous Education

Harvard University International Education Policy 2019
Boston College Secondary Education, History 2016