I am a public policy analyst specializing in technology and international affairs, with an interdisciplinary focus. Most relevantly, I am a Non-Resident Scholar with the Middle East Institute's (MEI) Strategic Technologies and Cyber Security Program. There, my work focuses on the development and deployment of emerging technologies in the United States and the Middle East and North Africa. A throughline in my work at MEI is the relationship between trends in critical and emerging technologies and MENA's place in the broader U.S.-China geopolitical competition.I am also a Non-Resident Fellow at the Orion Policy Institute (OPI), specializing in AI Policy. My work at OPI covers AI policy areas including privacy, security, employment, ethics, and governance as well as collaboration with other researchers.Additionally, I am a member of Foreign Policy for America's NextGen 2024 Initiative, a Fellowship designed to link emerging leaders in the public policy space and to advance American values in technology and human rights policy.I hold a proven track record of publishing policy analyses in prestigious outlets. My work appears in outlets including the Foreign Policy Research Institute, Geopolitical Monitor, War on the Rocks, Defense One, Military Strategy Magazine, The Hill, National Interest, and The Geopolitics Magazine. I occasionally interweave my technology analyses with my academic background in cognitive science, while also publishing scholarly research in publications including the Human Rights Review, AI & Society, Biolinguistics, and the Cambridge University Press. I hold a Master of Arts degree in Political Science from Villanova University, where my thesis focused on the cognitive-psychological foundations of international human rights norms. My interests were sparked at Rosemont College where I earned Bachelor of Arts degrees in Political Science and Philosophy, with interdisciplinary theses for each.
