I am a Ph.D. candidate in Public Policy at the University of Chicago. I work in development, labor, and behavioral economics, studying how inequality restricts access to opportunity and evaluating interventions that improve mobility in low-income labor markets.

I am on the 2025–26 academic job market.

From Fieldwork to Frameworks

My journey into development began as an undergraduate in India, where I co-founded the Project Reach Foundation, a nonprofit that focused on closing immunization gaps for infants. That early exposure to local institutions and the challenges of implementation shape how I design and interpret field experiments today. Before starting my Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, I trained in data analytics and policy at Carnegie Mellon University, which equipped me to combine econometrics with experimental design. I have also worked with the World Bank’s Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) and Development Research Group (DRG) teams on projects related to transport and gender.