I am a third-year politics Ph.D. student at The New School for Social Research in New York City, where I focus primarily on U.S. law and politics. Previously, I received my J.D. from U.C., Hastings (2019); political science MA from Penn State, focusing on international political economy (2012); and BA, also in political science, from Christopher Newport University (2010). Beyond academic training and university research, I have worked at two global nonprofit organizations. From 2015-16, I worked at The American Himalayan Foundation's San Francisco headquarters, where I served as an administrative and communications associate, helping draft, edit, and disseminate official organization communications. In 2017, between my first and second years of law school, I worked as a legal research intern at the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC) near Washington, D.C. At ICMEC, my work focused on bringing long-term projects to completion -- filling in research gaps in and editing/finalizing the text of white papers on child-protection laws around the world. My ongoing research focuses on two broad sets of questions. The first is more narrowly centered on U.S. law and politics, although it overlaps with comparativist research, especially in Western Europe: The recent histories of anti-democratic movements in the U.S., especially at the ultra-right fringe, and their use of political violence. The second stream of research focuses on the intersections of law and urban development, especially how legal institutions and extant rules constrain equitable development goals at the municipal level; the legacies of past (overt) discriminatory legal and developmental practices; and wealth/income inequalities at the city level. My writing on this second subject has appeared in academic outlets, like the Hastings Race & Poverty Law Journal, and in online magazines, like London-based Global Urbanist.