I grew up in Ohio and attended The Ohio State University, majoring in Physics and Political Science. After college, I joined Teach For America and taught high school physics and chemistry in Baltimore, Maryland. I witnessed firsthand the inequities in science education while teaching in one of the highest poverty neighborhoods in the city.

I went back to graduate school and graduated with a Ph.D. in Biophysics in 2019. In the fall of 2019 I started as a Truman Fellow at Sandia National Laboratories. The goal of my career is twofold. I want to push forward boundary-breaking research while lifting up people who have been historically excluded from science.