I am a Ph.D. candidate in Measurement, Evaluation, Statistics, and Assessment (Quantitative Policy Evaluation concentration) at Boston College's Lynch School of Education and Human Development. 

My research sits at the intersection of education policy, school finance, and educational access and opportunity. My work seeks to understand how funding policies shape student experiences and outcomes, and how education systems respond to demographic, enrollment, and fiscal change. My current work examines these issues through student mobility, inter-district school choice, and postsecondary enrollment decline and closure risk.

Across these projects, I draw on quasi-experimental and causal inference methods with large-scale administrative datasets, such as IPEDS and state longitudinal data, to examine how these policies and institutional changes affect access, opportunity, and academic outcomes for students and institutions in rural and under-resourced communities.

Before starting my doctoral studies, I worked as a math teacher in rural China and a data analyst at an educational technology company. I earned my B.S. in Biological Science from Sun Yat-sen University and M.Ed. in International Education Policy and Management from Vanderbilt University.