Research Portfolio
Policy Briefs &
Academic Research.
Applied research, institutional benchmarking, and policy frameworks translating complex data into actionable governance strategies.
Research at a Glance
- Briefs & Papers
- 12
- Research Areas
- 11
- Transit
- Public Health
- Housing
- Environment
- Congress
- Fiscal
- History
- Press Freedom
- Labor & Gender
- Higher Education
- Business
Strategic Impact
High-stakes projects driving structural change in
public administration.
Public Transit · Policy Management
Reliability and Restoration Action Plan
A four-pronged management plan to reverse RIPTA's service crisis using existing legal authority, federal funds, and employer partnerships, no new state funding required.
Management Plan
Public Health · Misinformation
The Landscape of Health Misinformation
A WHO-based prevention framework applying primordial, primary, secondary, and tertiary strategies to combat Health misinformation and AI-driven disinformation in Rhode Island.
Policy Framework
In Depth (Solo Work)
Case Studies & Policy Briefs.
Investigating the intersection of emerging technology, public health, and urban equity through data-driven advocacy.
Housing Equity
Algorithmic Rent-Setting & Housing Equity
A comprehensive policy brief evaluating the socioeconomic impacts of RealPage's YieldStar software on high-density urban rental markets, proposing frameworks for algorithmic transparency and anti-collusion measures.
Read Brief
International PolicyEnvironmental Governance
Systemic Substitution Asymmetry and Infrastructural Lock-In
A comparative analysis of the Montreal Protocol and the Paris Agreement, examining why one international environmental regime achieved near-total success while the other continues to struggle. Argues that treaty outcomes hinge less on institutional design than on whether industry can actually deliver affordable substitute technologies at scale.
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Congressional PolicyInstitutional Reform
Correcting the Legislative Information Market
A policy memorandum to the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration proposing the restoration of the Office of Technology Assessment, addressing the imbalance between Congressional analytic capacity and the lobbyists that currently fill that gap.
Read BriefPhoto credits
- United States Capitol, west front by Noclip, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and tinted.
- Antarctic Ozone Hole 2010 by NASA Earth Observatory, image courtesy Ozone Hole Watch, NASA imagery, via NASA Earth Observatory. Cropped and tinted.
- Network visualization of infodemic literature (Figure 1) by Javad Pool, Farhad Fatehi and Saeed Akhlaghpour (2021), CC BY-NC 4.0, via ResearchGate. Cropped and tinted.
Methods & Tools.
The research methods behind this work, each linked to where it was used.
Comparative policy analysis
Montreal Protocol vs. Paris AgreementGender & Labor MarketsAlgorithmic Rent-Setting
Legal & regulatory analysis
Fiscal & cost analysis
Weighted multi-criteria analysis
Stakeholder mapping & engagement
Survey research
Risk & uncertainty analysis
Logic models & implementation planning
Primary-source & archival research
Human-in-the-loop AI data pipelines
Software
- Python
- SQL
- Tableau
- Excel
- Microsoft Project