Biography

I hope to use research to help create an international financial system that meets the needs of the world’s most vulnerable. I studied Economics and Political Philosophy as an undergraduate, focusing on the post-colonial economic development of African states. While researching corruption in the Kinshasa traffic police, studying abroad in Senegal, and working at a school in Zambia, I came to see how policy made in New York, Washington D.C., and London shaped the financial realities of people far away, often with tragic consequences. Now, as a policy researcher at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, I study structural inequalities in the international financial system. I use my research to develop and advocate for policies that restructure international finance to support rather than suppress the development aspirations of post-colonial states.

Previous Education

University of Chicago Economics/Political Theory