About Me
Since this site’s raison d’être is professional, I should say a word or two about myself qua wage laborer
According to my résumé, I’m a political science PhD candidate at SUNY Stony Brook. In my actual day-to-day, however, I spend most of my time “upskilling” in technical AI safety and AI governance/policy. To that end, I …
- am lead organizer of BlueDot Impact’s Evals Group (see here for BlueDot Impact’s calendar)
- facilitate a couple groups of CAIS’s AI Safety, Ethics, and Society course
- also facilitate for European Network for AI Safety’s “Deep Dive” AI Policy Course
- somewhat recently completed Vista’s National Security Law and AI Course
- less recently completed the BlueDot AI Governance course
I’m also an active member of the Effective Altruism community – I attended my first Effective Altruism Global(x) event in Mexico City in March of 2025.
Looking back to the recent past, during my time at Stony Brook I had the pleasure of taking courses with such luminaries as Stanley Feldman, Andy Delton, and Yanna Krupnikov. The dissertation I’m currently wrapping up under the guidance of Michael Peress consists of three mostly independent chapters, one documenting public opinion on immigration’s effect on immigration policymaking at the level of US states, a second chapter covering cross-national comparisons of the urban-rural divide, and the third analyzing urban-rural moves and ideological shifts in the Netherlands.
Before starting my PhD, I taught English for a few years in Ecuador and Peru. And before that, I triple majored in philosophy, psychology, and German at the University of Arkansas (with a year spent at Karl-Franzens Universität in Graz, Austria).