I am a first year PhD student working with Dr.Brooke Foucault Welles and Dr. Christoph Riedl. I have a Bachelors inPsychology and a minor in Art from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. AtUW-Madison I investigated the relationship between bilingualism, semantic networks and creativity. Most recently I was a lab manager for a cognitive neuroscience lab at Penn State. At Penn State I studied cross-situational word learning and how people learn from linguistic Networks. At Northeastern I am interested in studying marginalization and communication in teams as well as marginalization in social networks. Most recently, I received an NULab Seedling grant and became a CITAP affiliate. This past year, I presented my extended abstract at the ICA .

In my spare time I enjoy sewing, drawing my pet rabbit and playing board games.