Undergraduate scholar, policy advocate, political strategist, and public-sector advisor working across youth civic participation, institutional accountability, multi-level governance, and globalization.
About
I study International & Comparative Politics and History, Law & Society at The American University of Paris. My academic work focuses on youth political participation, democratic governance, institutional accountability, sovereignty, glocalization, and multi-level governance.
Outside the classroom, I work in political strategy, advocacy, lobbying, student governance, and public-sector policy. My work has centered especially on youth representation, civic participation, free expression, and institutional reform.
Research & Writing
Research organized by topic. Abbreviated abstracts are shown below; unpublished work is listed by title and abbreviated abstract only.
Examines the narrowing of student free speech protections in U.S. Supreme Court jurisprudence following Tinker v. Des Moines, arguing that courts increasingly frame youth expression as institutional disruption rather than democratic practice.
Published in Hibou Magazine · Law Edition
Examines youth political activism against Florida’s 2022 Parental Rights in Education Act (HB 1557) through Political Opportunity Structure and Resource Mobilization theories, asking why highly visible student mobilization failed to influence legislative outcomes. The paper focuses on how institutional access, political opposition, and the position of young people shape the opportunities available to youth activists.
Examines youth political activism in France’s “Mouvement Lycéen” through Political Opportunity Structure and Resource Mobilization theories, asking why highly visible student mobilization can sustain protest yet translate only unevenly into formal policy influence. The paper focuses on how institutional access, organizational resources, and the political position of minors shape the opportunities available to youth activists.
Uses Burgundy’s wine governance as a case study of glocalization and multi-level governance, examining the shift from France’s AOC system to the EU’s AOP framework as an upward redistribution of regulatory authority and a broader example of state rescaling.
Analyzes the International Authority for the Ruhr as a useful but temporary mechanism for postwar control and German economic reintegration. It argues that the Authority ultimately failed because unequal external supervision lacked the political legitimacy and mutual obligations needed for durable European governance, helping explain its replacement by the more cooperative European Coal and Steel Community.
Argues that borders and jurisdictions are legal and social constructs whose practical force depends on collective recognition and political choice. Using the European Union’s simultaneous softening of many internal borders and hardening of its external edge, the paper shows that border permeability is politically produced rather than an inevitable feature of geography or sovereignty.
Investigates how multi-level governance restructures the function of borders within European integration, hypothesizing that borders persist legally while losing their monopolistic role in defining culture, markets, and sovereignty.
Examines how people in conflict-affected environments perceive authority beyond formal state institutions, using Lebanon and Ukraine to explore how authority is distributed across local actors, international organizations, NGOs, and foreign states.
Experience
Selected leadership and public-policy experience.
Kolendo Collective LLC
Leads a youth-focused advocacy, lobbying, and consulting firm working on civic participation, free speech, representation, campaign strategy, policy advocacy, and governance standards.
Visit Kolendo CollectiveAlaska Department of Health · Children’s Mental Health Initiative
Leads statewide advisory discussions on youth behavioral health strategy, cross-sector collaboration, reform priorities, and long-term planning.
Alaska Department of Health
Advises policymakers, committees, and partner organizations on youth behavioral health and substance-abuse prevention policy, programming, outreach, and public-health initiatives.
Student Government Association · The American University of Paris
Serves as chief elected representative of the undergraduate student body, overseeing governance initiatives, institutional advocacy, executive administration, and constitutional and bylaw reform.
Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District
Represented districtwide student interests, participated in policy deliberation and public governance, and advocated for student representation, institutional transparency, and ethical governance.
Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District
Ran a districtwide campaign focused on student representation, governance standards, district financial restructuring, and public trust, while leading fundraising, voter outreach, communications, and campaign operations.
Education
Bachelor of Arts · Double Major
International & Comparative Politics
History, Law & Society
Expected 2029 · Paris, France
Additional education
Blue River Aviation · Private Pilot License (2022)
Mat-Su Career & Technical High School · High School Diploma, Aviation Transportation (2024)
Contact
Available for academic, policy, advocacy, media, and professional inquiries.
Paris, France · Alaska, USA