Research Interests

Areas 

• Spatial economics, labor economics, urban economics

Topics

• • Residential location choices and transportation patterns among urban and rural communities

  • City development and inequality

  • Heterogeneous workers in local labor markets

• • Quantitative spatial modeling for economic simulations

  • Machine learning to motivate economic analyses

Education

Ph.D. - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Exp. Winter 2024)

• Fields: urban economics, labor economics

B.S. - University of Wyoming (2017)

• • • Major: Economics

    • Minors: Mathematics, Statistics

Work Experience

Analysis Group - Denver, CO

• Summer Associate, 2023

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

• • • Instructor - ECON 474 Econometrics of Policy Evaluation: Fall 2022 - Spring 2023

    • Teaching Assistant - Macroeconomic Principles: Spring 2019 & Spring 2022 & Fall 2023

    • Research Assistant - Dr. Alex Bartik and Dr. Eliza Forsythe: Winter 2020 - Winter 2021

    • Instructor - ECON 490 Applied Machine Learning in Economics: Fall 2020 - Spring 2021

    • Research Assistant - Regional Economics Applications Laboratory (REAL): Summer 2018 - Summer 2020

University of Wyoming

• • • Research Assistant - Dr. Alexandre Skiba: Spring 2017

    • Research Assistant - Dr. Benjamin Gilbert: Summer 2015 - Fall 2016

    • Supplemental Instruction Leader - Principles of Macroeconomics: Fall 2015 - Fall 2016

Awards

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Robert C. Demarest Memorial Teaching Award  - Fall 2020

University of Wyoming (2017)

• • • Department of Economics and Finance Best Economics Junior Award

    • University of Wyoming President's Honor Roll Award

    • University of Wyoming College of Business Dean's Honor Roll Award

    • University of Wyoming College of Arts and Sciences Honor Student Award

Certificates

• Data Science with Python - Data Camp