I am a PhD candidate at the Department of Government, University of Essex. My PhD project critiques the conceptualisation and measurements of democratic consolidation from a feminist lens. In my first year, I worked on interpreting the processes of democratisation and democratic institutionalisation through a feminist poststructuralist reformulation of discursive institutionalism. More broadly, my research is situated at the intersection between democratisation studies, feminist institutionalism and feminist political theory. My PhD study is fully funded by the ESRC through the SeNSS DTP and I was awarded a Diverse Voices Scholarship by the Political Studies Association for the academic year 2024/2025. More recently, a paper based on one of my thesis chapters, A Gendered Critique of the Two Turnover Test as an Indicator of Democratic Consolidation, was nominated for the 2025 ECPR Rudolf Wildenmann Prize.

Before beginning my doctoral study in October 2022, I was the Democracy Researcher at New Naratif, where I contributed to the Media Freedom in Southeast Asia Research Project, funded by the NED. Before that, I worked in various research roles, including as a senior research assistant and working paper series coordinator for the CoronaNet Research Project (TU Munich), and research intern for RepresentWomen and CSIS Indonesia. My writing and analysis of Indonesian politics have appeared on several platforms, including Australian Journal of Human Rights, The Diplomat, New Mandala, East Asia Forum and Policy Forum.

When I am not writing and revising my thesis chapters, I enjoy reading, writing fiction and poetry, long walks and taking scenic photographs.