selected publications journal article Why Does Corrective Information Have a Muted Effect on Immigration Attitudes? Motivated Reasoning and Shifting Goalposts. American Politics Research. 2025 How Are Minority Staffers Utilized? Evidence from the California State Assembly 2025 Immigration is difficult?! Informing voters about immigration policy fosters pro-immigration views. Journal of Experimental Political Science. 2025 A nation of immigrants? The case for a politically influential and intersectional immigrant identity in the United States. Politics, Groups and Identities. 986-1011. 2024 Do State Legislative Staffer Networks Influence Roll-call Voting? Evidence from Shared Personal Staffers in Arizona, Indiana, and New Mexico. State Politics and Policy Quarterly. 287-299. 2024 How Can the Police Avoid Earning Our Distrust?. 71-90. 2024 Is that ethical? An exploration of political scientists' views on research ethics. Research & Politics. 2023 Do Public Housing Agencies Discriminate Against Latinos? 2023 Are Subnational Policymakers' Policy Preferences Nationalized? Evidence from Surveys of Township, Municipal, County, and State Officials. Legislative Studies Quarterly. 441-454. 2023 Why Do Migrant Parents Give Their Children Distinctively Ethnic Names? Evidence from a Pre-registered Analysis. 19-33. 2023 Do citizens demand transparency from co-partisans? Evidence from a pre-registered experiment in Mexico. Electoral Studies. 2022 How Can We Address Professional Isolation Among Traditionally Underrepresented Students? The Importance of Peer Mentorship. Journal of Political Science Education. 425-429. 2022 Do Name-Based Treatments Violate Information Equivalence? Evidence from a Correspondence Audit Experiment. Political Analysis. 142-148. 2022 Do Politicians Ethnically Discriminate Against Hispanics? Evidence from a Field Experiment with State Legislative Offices. Legislative Studies Quarterly. 621-636. 2021 How Can We Improve Graduate Training for Undocumented Students? Ethnic and Nativity-Based Inequities in Political Science Graduate Education. PS: Political Science and Politics. 147-151. 2021 Can We Reduce Deception in Elite Field Experiments? Evidence from a Field Experiment with State Legislative Offices. State Politics and Policy Quarterly. 489-507. 2020 Do More Professionalized Legislatures Discriminate Less? The Role of Staffers in Constituency Service. American Politics Research. 571-578. 2020 Do political donors have greater access to government officials? Evidence from a FOIA field experiment with US municipalities 2020 Do immigrants import terrorism?. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 529-543. 2019
education and training Ph.D., University of California-Riverside 2021 M.A., University of California-Riverside 2018 M.A., California State University-Long Beach 2015 B.A., California State University-Northridge 2012