I am an Assistant Professor of Public Management at the University of Connecticut's School of Public Policy. I obtained my Ph.D. in Public Policy from the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs and the Department of Political Science at Indiana University – Bloomington in August 2022.
My work engages with research on administrative capacity, community-based CSOs, and local collaborative governance, focusing on municipalities and environmental sustainability in diverse settings. My public administration and management research examines how varying local governance conditions in the Global South may explain performance differences between more and less complex services. Using statistical analysis and intensive qualitative fieldwork related to waste management services in Peru, I examine how service-specific municipal administrative capacity, the involvement of locally-embedded CSOs, and the contours of cogovernance may affect these performance differences. My dissertation provides answers to this overarching puzzle: Why are some local governments successful at providing simples services (e.g., collecting waste) while at the same time blatantly failing at providing complex services (e.g., disposing of waste), while other, similarly resourced municipalities can do both?
My research has been published in the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (JPART) and State and Local Government Review (SLGR). I am also the recipient of the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration (NASPAA) 2021 Staats Emerging Scholars Award. Previously, I was a public servant in the Peruvian public sector (national and municipal level), a consultant at the World Bank in Washington, DC, and public sector manager at Deloitte Peru. I have a B.A. in Political Science from St. Olaf College in Minnesota and a Master of Public Policy from the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University.
My work engages with research on administrative capacity, community-based CSOs, and local collaborative governance, focusing on municipalities and environmental sustainability in diverse settings. My public administration and management research examines how varying local governance conditions in the Global South may explain performance differences between more and less complex services. Using statistical analysis and intensive qualitative fieldwork related to waste management services in Peru, I examine how service-specific municipal administrative capacity, the involvement of locally-embedded CSOs, and the contours of cogovernance may affect these performance differences. My dissertation provides answers to this overarching puzzle: Why are some local governments successful at providing simples services (e.g., collecting waste) while at the same time blatantly failing at providing complex services (e.g., disposing of waste), while other, similarly resourced municipalities can do both?
My research has been published in the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (JPART) and State and Local Government Review (SLGR). I am also the recipient of the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration (NASPAA) 2021 Staats Emerging Scholars Award. Previously, I was a public servant in the Peruvian public sector (national and municipal level), a consultant at the World Bank in Washington, DC, and public sector manager at Deloitte Peru. I have a B.A. in Political Science from St. Olaf College in Minnesota and a Master of Public Policy from the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University.