Education

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (July 2013 - May 2019)
Ph.D. in Economics

Johns Hopkins University (July 2008 - August 2010)
M.A. in International Economics and International Relations

New College of Florida (August 2003 - May 2007)
B.A. in Economics and Political Science

Fields of Interest

International Finance, Financial Economics, Applied Macroeconomics

Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City - Research Division - Kansas City, MO (Dec 2022 - Present)
Senior Economist

Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City - Research Division - Kansas City, MO (May 2019 - Dec 2022)
Economist

Federal Reserve Board of Governors - International Finance Division - Washington, DC (Summer 2018)
Dissertation Fellow

International Monetary Fund - Western Hemisphere Department - Washington, DC (Summer 2016)
Fund Internship Program

International Monetary Fund - Western Hemisphere Department - Washington, DC (April 2010 - August 2012)
Research Assistant

Conference Presentations

2022: Midwest Macro; University of Florida; 28th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance; CEPR IMF Annual Programme; 53rd Annual Conference of the Money, Macro and Finance Society; Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings; Southern Finance Association Annual Meetings; Bank of England; Federal Reserve System Energy Meeting; Federal Reserve System Committee on Financial Institutions, Regulation, and Markets Annual Meeting; Australasian Finance and Banking Conference

2021: AEA Annual Meetings; Joint BIS, BoE, ECB and IMF Conference: Spillovers in a ``post-pandemic, low-for-long'' world; Barcelona GSE Summer Forum: Financial Shocks, Channels, and Macro Outcomes (scheduled); NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics; CEBRA Annual Meetings

2020: IMF IEO Seminar, IBEFA at WEAI, Southern Finance Association Annual Meetings, Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings, 14th International Conference on Computational and Financial Econometrics

2019: Midwest Macro, 2nd Annual Irish Academy of Finance Conference Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Time Series Econometrics Workshop, 29th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Econometrics Group (2019), 13th International Conference on Computational and Financial Econometrics, Rady School of Management at UC San Diego, Warrington College of Business at University of Florida, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

2018: Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Bank of Canada, Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings, Federal Reserve Board of Governors Finance Forum, Federal Reserve Board of Governors International Finance Workshop

2017:  Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings, AEA Annual Meetings, Society  for  Economic  Measurement Annual Symposium  

2016: IMF Western Hemisphere Brown Bag