I am a 6th-year PhD Candidate in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Berkeley. I will be joining the Department of Environmental Economics and Management at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem as a tenure-track Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the 2024-25 academic year.

I am a development economist who combines applied and structural methods to study how agricultural households interact with imperfect markets. My job market paper estimates how financial constraints and input market frictions each contribute to misallocation in Thai agriculture and shows how separately identifying both of these distortions is crucial for policy inference.

I have ongoing projects studying the impacts of large-scale land transactions on local economic outcomes in Ethiopia, the impacts of postharvest loan programs on farmer welfare under price uncertainty, and the estimation of multi-stage agricultural production functions. 

Before starting my PhD, I graduated from Tufts University and worked as a Senior Research Assistant at the International Food Policy Research Institute. I have lived in Ghana, Tanzania, and Uganda and also conducted research in Ethiopia, India, Kenya, and Nigeria. In 2013, I was a semifinalist on College Jeopardy!