Member of the South Carolina Bar (2017-Present)
JD, Charleston School of Law (2017)
MA, Security Studies, Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East, South Asia, Naval Postgraduate School (2024)
BSAST, Nuclear Energy Production Engineering, Thomas Edison State University (2014)
BA, French, Defense Foreign Language Institute (2024)
Veteran of US Navy Submarine Service and US Marine Corps
Master Mason, Ancient Free Masons of South Carolina (2008-Present)
American Chemical Society (2014-Present)
American Civil Liberties Union (2014-Present)
Marines' Memorial Foundation (2022- Present)
LANGUAGES
-English
-French
ARTICLES & PUBLICATIONS
- Integrating AI and Regional Maritime Security Cooperation: A Strategic Response to Migrant Smuggling in Coastal West Africa (2025).
- Vulnerable Borders, Stronger Surveillance: Machine Learning Solutions to Address Artisanal Gold-Mining Security Concerns in the Kédougou-Mali Border Region (2024).
- Illuminating Dark Networks: Disrupting the Jama'at Nusrat Al-Islam Wal-Muslimin, Kidnap for Ransom Network (2023).
-Negotiating Power and Faith Within the State: Analysis of Religious and Political Dynamics of Statecraft in Senegal (2022).
- Lessons from Afghanistan: Avoiding Strategic Missteps in U.S. Security Sector Assistance to Africa (2022).
- Oil, The Niger Delta, and The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea: Contemporary Analysis of Natural Resource Exploitation on the Niger Delta (2017).
