•Capital-markets researcher by trade. At the intersection of Wall Street and Main Street: buy-side institutional investing in the municipal bond market at State Farm Insurance Companies. Anthropologist of market-reaction functions on the side. •MBA candidate at The Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. •Published author by The University of Texas at Austin Press, “The Development of a Municipal Bond Market in Brazil.” Explores how the U.S. public finance structure may serve as a regulatory model for emerging markets, where historically nationalized and privately-financed infrastructure projects erode the fiscal capacity of sub-national sovereigns (i.e. instrumentalities of the state) to efficiently access debt-capital markets.*Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed vis-à-vis posts or articles are those of the authors (or my own) and are not representative of views held by State Farm, nor, do my comments qualify as investment advice or constitute anyone reading as current or prospective clients to State Farm.