I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Economics at New York University through the Foundations of the Market Economy Program. In fall 2024 I will be joining the Department of Business Administration and Economics at Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, IN. I earned my BS in chemical biosciences and economics from the University of Oklahoma and my PhD in economics from George Mason University. I am interested in how community ties and culture influence economic development. Often, I use the context of communities’ experience with disasters to reveal how social life and economic life shape one another, demonstrating the relevance of studying social life when studying (re-)development. I am also interested in how this approach can inform politics, philosophy, and economics (PPE), especially non-consequentialist moral evaluation of social systems.