I grew up in New York where I was a child actor for ten years, performing in plays, movies, television, and commercials. I also did improv comedy at the iO, the Upright Citizens Brigade, and the Magnet Theatre, and got a BS in Theatre from Northwestern University. While at Northwestern I developed a love for football.

Eventually, I decided to go back to school to pursue Astrophysics, at Columbia University. While at Columbia I got to do research on the Milky Way stellar halo and be part of The WFIRST Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey Working Group. I also got really into triathlons and distance running.

After finishing my undergraduate course work at Columbia, I spent a year at the American Museum of Natural History as a Helen Fellow, a research and teacher post-baccalaureate fellowship for women in computational science. While there I worked on the AGN disk LIGO merger channel. I also taught scientific python programming and mentored high school girls in a research project related to my own research.

Starting at Princeton, I did semester projects in a few different fields. First, I worked on a project using Athena++ to simulate AGN jets and feedback. Then I examined how binary stellar evolution can impact reionization and mentored two undergraduates at Princeton who co-authored a follow up paper. I also worked on a swirling argon gas experiment intended to be an analogy to a proto-planetary disks, in order to study non-ideal MHD MRI. At Princeton, I played on the co-ed club flag football team as a slot receiver/strong safety.

After the pandemic, I started my thesis on AGN disk structure. When I am not busy working, you can find me watching Survivor or a movie in order to stay up to date on my favorite Survivor and movie podcasts to listen to while I train for my latest race.