Hello! My name is Isaiah, and I am a researcher who enjoys using quantitative and methods to understand people's attitudes. My primary expertise is in designing, administering, and analyzing original surveys and survey experiments as well as performing content analysis on text data. I am particularly passionate about taking a normative and outcome-based approach to research, aiming to make a tangible impact on the real world.

I am an incoming 5th-year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I study American Politics and am interested in political behavior, political communications, and political psychology. My dissertation hopes to identify practical solutions for reducing animosity between Republicans and Democrats. Specifically, I hypothesize that reducing the salience of partisan identity and increasing the salience of other identities can improve affect towards outpartisans.