Maria Silfa is a political scientist studying American politics with a focus on interest groups and bureaucratic politics. Her current work explores how business interests interact with the bureaucracy at different stages of the rulemaking process. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Rochester in 2022 and was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University in 2022-2023. During the 2023-2024 academic year, she will be a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.