Evidence, interpretation, and public work

How I came to the work

I grew up in Montréal and now live in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area. Moving between countries and languages made me attentive to how quickly context changes from one place to another. Laws, opportunities, and public problems can look very different depending on which side of a border one stands.

My research often begins by separating fact from inference. I want to know what the available evidence can establish, where interpretation begins, and how our assumptions influence what we notice. Bias can enter through an argument, a source, or even the way data are collected and organized. Careful analysis remains possible, yet it requires a clear account of the path from evidence to conclusion.

I have pursued these questions through organized-crime research, systematic literature reviews, firearms-trafficking data, congressional hearings, and legislative work. I move between quantitative evidence, qualitative sources, and public writing while keeping a meticulous account of how a conclusion was reached and what remains uncertain.

Outside a job title, I remain drawn to politics, history, literature, philosophy, and hockey. These interests inform the questions I notice and the care I bring to public problems, even when they remain beyond the page of a policy brief.