Hi! I’m a lawyer, policymaker, and (occasional!) freelance journalist interested in emerging technology, national security, Cold War history, refugee policy, and the U.S. Census.
I most recently served as Director for Technology and National Security at the White House, where I covered semiconductor and AI policy and other China-tech issues, and before that I was Senior Advisor to the Director of the CHIPS Program Office at the U.S. Department of Commerce, where I helped launch the office responsible for administering $39 billion in semiconductor incentives under the 2022 CHIPS and Science Act. I’ve also been a law clerk in NY and a journalist at Foreign Affairs and at the Wall Street Journal in New Delhi, and I’ve taught an undergraduate Yale seminar on writing and foreign policy. I have a J.D. from Yale Law School, an M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge, and a BA in English from Yale College.
I created this website to showcase my (eclectic) writing—no real theme, just whatever interests me at the moment! My work has appeared in the Boston Globe, the Economist, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the New Yorker, The Washington Post, and the Yale Law Journal, among other places.
Happy reading!