About

I earned my law degree in May 2025 from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where I was a Toll Public Interest Scholar. 

During law school, I was a member of The Appellate Project (TAP), a national mentorship and professional development program for aspiring appellate litigators hailing from backgrounds underrepresented in the appellate bar. As a student in the Penn-Dechert LLP Federal Appellate Litigation Clinic, I worked on Opening and Reply Briefs in a case heard by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, where I was admitted to practice as a law student under L.A.R. 46.3. I also held impact litigation internships with Public Justice, ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project, and ACLU of Pennsylvania, during law school. 

Before law school, I worked to strengthen the U.S. refugee protection regime and the federal social safety net. I began my public service career as a Truman-Albright Fellow in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) during the Obama Administration. My evaluation portfolio included federal cash assistance and safety net programs for refugees. During the 2016-2017 academic year, I was a Fulbright-Schuman grantee and Visiting Research Fellow at Migration Policy Institute Europe in Brussels, Belgium. My Fulbright project examined the role of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in supporting refugees' job readiness and labor market integration in Germany and Sweden. I am an active member of the Fulbright Alumni community and periodically review applications and interview European finalists for the Fulbright-Schuman program. 

My work experience before law school also involved improving public health infrastructure and information. I served as Special Assistant to the Commissioner of Health for the City of Baltimore, where I worked to advance evidence-based approaches to addressing public health challenges, including the opioid overdose crisis. Immediately before law school, I was a researcher at American Oversight, a FOIA litigation and government transparency organization, where my investigations surrounded public health and immigration issues during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

As an undergraduate, I held internships at the Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM) at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., where I provided research for a book project on humanitarian crises and migration, and at the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC) in Dublin, Ireland, where I researched and wrote about the country's Direct Provision accommodation system for asylum seekers. 

My research and advocacy have been recognized by the Clarendon Fund, the U.S. Mission to the European Union, the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation, the American-German Institute, and the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS), among others. 

In addition to my law degree, I earned my M.Sc. in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies from the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford, where I was a Clarendon Scholar and a member of St. Antony’s College. I hold a B.A. from Boston College, where I was named a Truman and Fulbright Scholar.