He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2005 and is a former Daily Pennsylvanian columnist. He specializes in race, education and constitutional law and is the author of “Diversity Within Racial Groups and the Constitutionality of Race-Conscious Admissions,” published in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law (November 2012) and of “Fisher’s Fishing Expedition,” published in Heightened Scrutiny (February 2013), the online supplement to the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law.