Teaching

I began my career as a teacher. I’ve taught 5th grade, middle, and high school as well as undergraduate and graduate students. I have extensive teaching experience in both methods and substantive courses. In addition, I have designed new courses for master’s students for both in-person and online formats, advised master’s of education policy students, supervised undergraduate thesis projects in political science and social studies, and served as the inaugural research methods coach at the Harvard Kennedy School. Being a teacher is an important part of my identity and my experiences with students and educators around the world continue to inform my research and policy work.

Please find a summary of the university courses I have taught or served as a teaching assistant for below. I am happy to share course syllabi and teaching evaluations upon request.

** Indicates quantitative methods teaching

Harvard Graduate School of Education

Instructor of Record

• Education Finance in a Global Context** - Designed and taught original course (2020, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025)

• The Politics of Education in the Developing World (2025)

• Intermediate and Advanced Statistical Methods for Applied Research** (co-instructor) (2022)

Selected Teaching Fellow Positions at HGSE

• Intermediate and Advanced Statistical Methods for Applied Research** (Professor Andrew Ho) (2020)

• Introduction to Applied Data Analysis** (Dr. Joe McIntyre) (2020)

• Microeconomics: A Policy Tool for Educators** (Professor Felipe Barrera-Osorio) (2018, 2019)

• Education in Armed Conflict (Professor Sarah Dryden-Peterson) (2019, 2020)

• Culture, Institutions, and Society Doctoral Concentration Seminar (Dr. Irene Liefshitz) (2020)

• Education and International Development (Professor Emmerich Davies) (2019)

Harvard College

Teaching Fellow

• Politics of Development in Africa (Professor Pia Raffler) (2023)

• Evaluating the Impacts of Public Policies** (Professor Michael Hiscox) (2023)

• The Politics of Globalization (Professors Larry Summers & Robert Lawerence) (2022)

• Behavioral Insights for Public Policy (Professor Michael Hiscox) (2022, 2023)

Undergraduate Thesis Supervision and Grading

• Thesis supervision for two undergraduate thesis projects focused on the politics of education

• Thesis grader for students completing degrees in government and social studies majors

Harvard Kennedy School

Research Methods Coach**

• Lead research methods coach supporting master’s thesis research at HKS (2019 -2022)

• Published research methods guide: “Qualitative Research Methods for Public Policy”.

LBJ School of Public Affairs - The University of Texas at Austin

Teaching Assistant

• Analytic Methods for Public Policy** (Professor Erin Lentz) (2015)

K-12 Teaching

• High School World History and Economics Teacher (Dallas Public Schools) - Dallas, TX

• High School English Teacher (Fulbright English Teaching Assistant) - Bulgaria

• Elementary School English Teacher (WorldTeach) - Costa Rica

• Middle School Teaching Assistant & American Sign Language Instructor (KIPP Austin Public Schools) - Austin, TX