Welcome! I am a Statistician at the Center for Global Democracy and the LAPOP Lab, Vanderbilt University. I previously worked as a Research Data Scientist at the Center for Social Media and Politics, New York University. I earned my Ph.D. in Political Science from Stony Brook University in 2022. Drawing on psychological motivations theories with a focus on Latinos and Latin Americans, my research agenda is at the intersection of mass behavior, public opinion, and survey methodology (see YouGov's "Methodology Matters" series).
My research has been published in scholarly journals such as Political Behavior, Political Communication, Applied Cognitive Psychology, PNAS Nexus, Latin America Research and Review, and Brazilian Political Science Review. My ongoing research focuses on authoritarian social orientations that motivate support for non-democratic forms of government and candidates in Latin America (see the book review of my edited volume on political right parties in Brazil).