I was born at Memorial Hospital in Colorado Springs, CO on February 25, 1987 — though I wouldn’t stay long. As an army brat (or “global nomad,” as someone once aptly put it), my childhood was a series of uprooting and replanting: Fairbanks, AK; Calcium, NY; Hohenfels, Germany; and eventually back to my native Colorado. That kind of itinerant upbringing has a way of making you attentive to how people form groups, draw boundaries, and decide who belongs.

I graduated from Fountain Fort Carson High School in 2005 and headed to Colorado State University, where I double-majored in Psychology and Mathematics. The combination wasn’t accidental — I was drawn to the rigor of quantitative reasoning and the complexity of human behavior in equal measure. After finishing at CSU in 2009, I moved to the University of Connecticut, where I earned my Ph.D. in Social Psychology in 2014 under the mentorship of Felicia Pratto, one of the leading scholars in social dominance theory.

I am now an Associate Professor of Psychology at Clark University in Worcester, MA, where I continue to study how power, hierarchy, and justice shape social life.

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