Born and raised in the Midwest, Conway moved to Washington, D.C., for college and lived there for over a decade until coming to Princeton. Conway worked for the federal government for seven years, serving as a nonpartisan policy analyst for a bipartisan board of political appointees that advise federal policymakers on the social insurance and means-tested programs administered by the Social Security Administration that provide retirement, disability, and survivor benefits. After Princeton, Conway hopes to return to public service and use his graduate degree to improve people’s access to federal programs that support determinants of well-being like housing, health, and education. Conway graduated magna cum laude from George Washington University, where his senior thesis, which measured multidimensional poverty in the United States by nativity status, received special honors and earned him a research assistantship with the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative. In 2022, he was elected to the National Academy of Social Insurance. In his free time, Conway enjoys documentaries, Pilates, and hiking, and has served as a volunteer tax preparer.