She received her Ph.D. in 2011 from the University of California, Los Angeles and has held pre- and post-doctoral fellowships at Stanford and Yale. She uses survey and experimental methods to study political behavior and citizen preferences in new African democracies, as well as how citizen behavior shapes government performance and accountability. Her research has been published in World Politics, Political Behavior, Political Opinion Quarterly, and the Quarterly Journal of Political Science. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, and she is a member of Experiments in Governance and Politics. More information can be found at her website and on her Google scholar profile.