Joined the Center for Integrity in Forensic Sciences as the Center's Researcher in April.

Began consulting with Dr. Brashani Reece to design the research and data infrastructure for Drop LWOP New England.

Needed extended leave of absence to heal from a serious car accident in July.

Published Reject the offer: The asymmetric impact of defense attorneys' plea recommendations. in Criminal Justice and Behavior. (full text here) with Drs. Kelsey Henderson and Miko Wilford. Here, I was the statistical lead, performing all analyses in R. This project has open data and code.

Published Advancing Equity in the Administration of Justice through Inclusive Communications and Person-Centered Language at the National Center for State Courts (full text here) with Dr. Kelly Freeman.

Earned my Ph.D. in Applied Psychology and Prevention Science from UMass Lowell in August.

Joined the National Center for State Courts as a Research Associate in July.

Moderated panel entitled The Future of Open Science in Psychology and Law, presented by Law and Human Behavior at the annual conference of the American Psychology-Law Society.

Presented published research expanding the theoretical Shadow of the Trial model, Guilt status influences plea outcomes beyond the shadow of the trial in an interactive simulation of legal procedures, in a symposium at the annual conference of the American Psychology-Law Society entitled Using an interactive simulation of legal procedures to study plea decision-making, moderated by Dr. Miko Wilford.

Supervised undergraduate student submission and presentation, The effect of eyewitness race and credibility on participant jurors decision-making, by Ryanne Berube at the American Psychology-Law Society's annual conference, held in Denver, CO.

Joined the Center for Open Science in June as the Data Manager for The Global Flourishing Study, a $43.4-million collaboration between Harvard's Human Flourishing Program and Baylor's Institute for Studies of Religion.

Published Innocence in the shadow of the COVID-19: Plea decision making during a pandemic in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied (full text here) with Drs. Miko Wilford, David Zimmerman, and Shi Yan. Here, I contributed to the methodological design of this research study and the legal simulation software used within, managed data collection efforts on Prolific Academic, and joined/cleaned datasets for analysis using Python and R.

Published Guilt status influences plea outcomes beyond the shadow-of-the-trial in an interactive simulation of legal procedures in Law and Human Behavior (full text here) with Drs. Miko Wilford, Joseph Gonzales, and Misha Rabinovich. Here, I contributed conceptually to the computer simulation described in this publication, programmed the experimental research in Qualtrics, managed data collection efforts on Prolific Academic, etc.

Supervised honors undergraduate student thesis, The influence of misinformation in the media on eyewitness testimony by Kaleigh Mulligan. Kaleigh presented this research ("Social media enhances the misinformation effect") at the American Psychology-Law Society's annual conference, held virtually due to COVID-19.

Organized and participated in panel discussing two-pronged approach to ending mass incarceration entitled It Takes a Village: Ending Mass Incarceration Through Research and Community Advocacy, presented virtually by Psi Chi at UMass Lowell. Additional panelists include Dr. Brashani Reece and Francisco SantosSilva, formerly with the MA Department of Youth Services.

Presented unpublished research as virtual posters at the annual conference of the American Psychology-Law Society. I presented on a research collaboration examining the effects of the covid pandemic on plea decision-making, Innocence in the shadow of COVID-19: Plea decision-making during a pandemic, and the first study from my dissertation, Does knowledge of coercive plea offers reduce the tendency to infer guilt from a guilty plea?

Served as Experimental Liaison for the American Psychology-Law Society's Student Committee.

Served as Treasurer and Secretary for Psi Chi at UMass Lowell.

Presented my first-author project, The effects of innocence and guilt on plea bargaining: A meta-analysis, in a symposium at the 2020 annual conference of the American Psychology-Law Society entitled A plea you can't refuse: Evaluating psychological and structural predictors of plea decisions, moderated by Dr. Stephanie Cardenas.

Presented my first-author project, Guilty pleas versus guilty verdicts-Is there a preferred method of conviction? in a symposium at the 2020 annual conference of the American Psychology-Law Society entitled guilty pleas and modeling plea decision-making, moderated by Dr. Samantha Luna.

Joined the (now defunct) Applied Cognition Research Lab as the Grant Manager for Dr. Miko Wilford's National Science Foundation Grant, A System of Pleas: Using a role-playing simulation to test plea decision models. Through 2021, I managed and contributed to the research and methodology of The Plea Justice Project, which produced an easily customizable, interactive simulation of legal procedures.