Hello! I am a fourth year Political Science PhD candidate at Stanford University. My work focuses on gender and politics broadly, particularly political pipelines for women candidates and the institutional factors underlying women’s underrepresentation. I focus largely on local and state elections and party primaries, with particular interest in the Western U.S. states.

I also focus on women’s representation in the Republican party and conservatives’ public opinion on key issues such as mail-in voting. My other interests include increasing external validity in survey experiments and promoting good questionnaire design.

Here at Stanford, I am affiliated with the Political Psychology Research Group (PPRG), ID2 Lab, PASCL, and the Center for American Democracy (IRiSS), which funds many of my research projects. In 2022-23 I took part in the Laboratory for the Study of American Values as I began my dissertation work on women as political candidates, using survey conjoint experiments and local candidate data.

Prior to Stanford, I worked at Qualtrics in project management and survey design, analysis, and reporting. I earned my BA in Political Science with a minor in Africana Studies from Brigham Young University in 2017 and my MA in Political Science from Stanford University in 2022.

After earning my PhD at Stanford, I hope to continue my research and teaching as a professor. I also enjoy sharing materials and advice with applicants to political science PhD programs.

My husband Zachary and I have two daughters, Matisse (7) and Violet (3). I am originally from Burley, Idaho. In my spare time, I enjoy ballet, triathlon training, nature, sewing & embroidery, obsessing over the family Halloween costumes, reading anything and everything on Wikipedia, and films + music (vinyl especially) new and old . I collect political Barbies and campaign pins which I display in my Encina Hall West office.