Dissertation: Issue Salience and Lawmaking: How Regional Salience Influences Bargaining. Committee : Scott Adler (Chair), Srinivas Parinandi, Jennifer Wolak, Joshua Strayhorn, and Brian Keegan (College of Media, Communication and Information at ²ÊÃñ±¦µä) Major Field: American Politics, Political Methodology Ph.D. 2019 Data Scientist at People, Science, Business (PSB) , Denver, Colorado