I'm currently a PhD Candidate in Political Science and International Relations at the University of Southern California and Visiting Scholar at Indiana University's Ostrom Workshop. 

I study social signaling, human rights NGOs, cause prioritization, effective altruism, and research methodology. My research evaluates the social and status incentives for donating to charity, with a focus on how social signaling creates supply-side problems  among nongovernmental organizations. My dissertation argues that donors pay for status benefits, and human rights NGOs meet this market demand by seeking to benefit donor reputation rather than seeking to effectively advance human rights.