About Me
Hello! My name is Luca, and I am a 4th-year Political Science and Community Development major at the University of California, Davis.
My approach to political science lives at the intersection of theory and practice, making me an individual with the hard skills of policy and quantitative human-driven research expertise, created through community and personal engagement; a qualitative understanding that comes from passion and involvement.
My current research spans three areas: my honors thesis on political violence and democratic backsliding in El Salvador, the develoment of a manuscipt of housing and transportation policy analysis, and political/voting behavior research assistant work.
Education
BA Political Science & BS Community Development
University of California, Davis • June 2026 • GPA 3.8
Graduate coursework: Research Methods in Policial Science, Causal Inference, Computational Text Analysis, Transportation Equity & Policy
Skills
R, Python, ArcGIS, SQL, MATLAB, LaTeX, Git
Spanish (California Seal of Biliteracy)
Research Interests
Democratic Backsliding | Mass Incarceration | Media Coverage of Conflict | Housing & Transportation | Urban Economics | Urban Planning & Policy.