About

I am a Research Director on the Social Impact team at Meta (fka Facebook), where I support research for our Youth Well-being, Equity, and Responsible AI teams as well as projects focused on understanding the societal impact of social media more generally. Since 2020, I have served as the PI for the US 2020 Facebook and Instagram Election Study, a large-scale research collaboration with 20+ academics studying the impact of these platforms on key outcomes in the US 2020 election using both experimental and observational methods. Previously, I managed research teams on Social Impact focused on civic, equity, and climate, as well as on the Civic Integrity and Growth teams.

Before joining Facebook, I was a senior research analyst at Langer Research Associates, a leading survey research and analysis firm based in New York, and I served as an Assistant Professor in the Political Studies Division at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in Mexico City, where I remain an Affiliated Professor.  I received my PhD in political science from the University of Notre Dame.

This is the home of my academic research, which has broadly focused on public opinion, political behavior and survey research methods in the Americas, with a more recent focus on the interaction between politics and social media. My dissertation explains why mass commitment to democracy varies across citizens and countries, particularly in the new democracies of Latin America. A paper based on this research received the American Political Science Association's 2014 Franklin L. Burdette/ Pi Sigma Alpha Award, which recognizes the best paper presented at the 2013 APSA Annual Meeting. Beyond this research interest in mass attitudes to democracy, my research also includes a large-scale study of clientelism and electoral intimidation in Latin America and projects employing multilevel regression with poststratification (MRP) to forecast public opinion and electoral behavior in the United States.  My research has appeared or is forthcoming in the Science, Nature, American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Political Behavior, Public Opinion Quarterly, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Peace Research, and Latin American Research Review.