I am an Assistant Professor of Communications at Syracuse University in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. I teach undergraduate and graduate courses on media law. 

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For over a decade, my research has centered on digital privacy. My scholarship connects legal thinking with communication studies. I take arguments from law and policy and turn them into questions we can study empirically—measuring what matters to change makers so that communication research can more effectively shape policy and practice. I focus on protecting digital privacy, individual expression, and trust as new technologies evolve, from messaging platforms to emotion AI systems.

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Prior to joining Syracuse University, I was a postdoc at the University of Michigan School of Information. I earned a PhD and MA  from the Division of Emerging Media Studies at Boston University and my BS in Communication from Cornell University. 

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