I am an Assistant Professor in the Division of Politics and Economics at Claremont Graduate University. In May 2025, I will start as a Governance Specialist in the World Bank’s Public Institutions and Data Analytics Unit. I am currently a faculty affiliate at the Center for Effective Global Action and was a non-resident fellow in the Program on Governance and Local Development at the University of Gothenburg in 2023.

I study governance from the perspective of citizens, bureaucrats, and their interactions. My policy expertise is in water, housing, and urbanization in India. I rely on field studies, primary data collection, qualitative methods, and creative strategies for causal inference to shed light on the potential for government accountability in contexts where existing research would suggest its prospects seem weak.

I completed my PhD in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley in May 2020. I have been named a Susan Clarke Young Scholar by APSA’s Urban and Local Politics Section.

I co-organize an annual conference on urban politics in the global south. Check it out here!

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