I am an assistant professor of Nonprofit Management at Slippery Rock University. My teaching focus is on financial management and community development, and my current research examines workforce trends in nonprofit organizations.
I earned my Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh in August 2018. My interests include nonprofit management, human resources, public management, the inner-workings of bureaucracy, and outsourcing. My dissertation, which won the 2019 APSA George C. Edwards III award for dissertation research on the presidency, focused on how organizational hierarchy influences decision-making in the federal bureaucracy. I have published five co-authored papers (Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, Public Administration Review, Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy, Economics and Politics, and American Politics Research).
I previously worked as the Manager of Employee Evaluation for the Pittsburgh Public Schools, and as a Consultant for Deloitte Consulting and BearingPoint. As a contractor, I worked with government clients at the state and federal level. I also hold a Master of Public Policy and Management from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Policy Studies from Syracuse University.