I'm an economist by training and a researcher by trade. I have a Bachelor's degree in economics from Carnegie Mellon University, and a Master's degree in applied economics from Johns Hopkins University.

Right now, I'm a research associate at the Employee Benefit Research Institute, where my work focuses on the intersection of health and wealth. Currently, I'm working on projects that leverage EBRI's HSA Database, FSA Database, Telemedicine Database, and Financial Wellbeing Database, as well as commercial health insurance claims databases to help employers and policymakers develop a better understanding of the impact of these benefits on workers.

Previously, I was a member of the policy research team at Morningstar, Inc. I leaned on my academic background to perform economic analyses to define and inform Morningstar's institutional positions on proposed regulations that affected investors.

I rely on EBRI's data, proprietary databases, as well as government data for my work, analyzing both publicly-available survey microdata, such as the Survey of Consumer Finances or the Survey of Income and Program Participation, and by scraping publicly-available data, like from the SEC's EDGAR system. I've got a knack for extracting insights from data and explaining them in easily-understood ways: my work has been covered in outlets like the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, among others.

Before that, I worked at HelloWallet conducting personal finance research, and at the American Institutes for Research conducting education research.

Currently, I live in Washington, DC. I love single-origin coffee, craft beer, and Milwaukee Brewers baseball.