I am a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of Houston studying energy & climate justice, inequality, & race.
I am a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of Houston studying energy & climate justice, inequality, & race.
My dissertation research is in Public Policy and American Politics.
I evaluate the policy feedback effects of means-tested home energy assistance programs. I focus on the burdens and disparities in program participation for low-income Americans, and the resultant impacts on racial equity, energy affordability and justice, and climate policymaking.
I serve as a researcher at UH Energy, the energy initiative across the University of Houston System.
My interdisciplinary work focuses on federal and state policies for decarbonization and energy affordability, climate resilience, public opinion on carbon management, and techno-economic and policy analyses for net-zero pathways.
My research has been published in Environmental Science & Technology, Frontiers in Climate, Energy & Environment, Frontiers in Energy Research, and Carbon Management.
I teach Policy Analysis for the Sustainable Energy Development Micro-credentialing Program.
The focused and interdisciplinary program offers courses for advanced undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Houston, and energy professionals.
I also co-run program evaluations across course offerings to support the University's workforce development efforts for the energy transition.
I am serving as a 2024 Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Fellow at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. I am on the Board on Energy and Environmental Systems, where most of my work is focused on the Carbon Utilization Infrastructure, Markets, Research and Development Consensus Study and the Leveraging Community Benefit Frameworks: Empowering Communities to Benefit from Federally Funded Energy Projects Workshop, with a focus on energy and climate policymaking through Justice40.