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Hello!

I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Politics at New York University. My research focuses on the effect of media and technology on political attitudes and behavior.

My job market paper uses a combination of experiments and computational text analysis to show how social media causes citizens to perceive media organizations and experts as out of touch with the general public.

Before my Ph.D., I studied interactive telecommunications at NYU Tisch and worked as a software engineer with Meta’s elections integrity team.

You can reach me at saz[300 + 10]@nyu.edu

See my research for current projects and working papers, or my CV.