I am a first-generation college graduate with a BA in Economics and Philosophy and a BS in Mathematics from the honors college at the University of Mississippi. During my time there, I was the President of College Democrats, interned at the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation, won the highest academic award for an economics major, and was a research assistant in Law and Economics at the School of Law. My efforts to remove confederate iconography from the campus and to protect undocumented students in the wake of the 2016 election drew ire from right-wing outlets such as Breitbart.

After graduating, I founded the largest voting rights nonprofit in Mississipi, which has drawn praise in media outlets like the New York Times for its successful efforts to overturn illegal racial gerrymanders in the state, to pilot education programmes for returning citizens, to implement new campaign tools in the state to increase voter outreach, and to continue the unfinished work of earlier advocates for civil rights.

I have served as the VP of Young Democrats of Mississippi and on the Executive Committee of the state Democratic Party, and I worked as an organiser in Florida to elect Joe Biden during the 2020 presidential election. I also spent two years in the Mississippi Delta with Teach for America, where I helped pilot college counseling programmes facilitating opportunities to attend a number of prestigious institutions. My interests are in combining evidence-based practices and research with effective community organising to create social and economic opportunity and mobility.