About Me
I was born and raised in Northern Virginia and initially gravitated towards engineering, but found my purpose - improving the health of patients in need - while working at the MITRE Corporation, where I spent three years helping develop a medical device to rapidly diagnose concussions among athletes and military personnel.
I attended Harvard College, where I studied biomedical engineering and pursued projects at the intersection of engineering and medicine, including a virtual reality intervention to provide behavioral therapy for autistic adolescents and an online platform to detect environmental health hazards. After graduating, I pursued a Fulbright Scholarship in Goa, India, where I researched the impact of stigma on autistic children in rural communities. These experiences highlighted the profound impact of health inequities and led me to pursue health policy research at the US Department of Health and Human Services, National Health Service England, and the Crimson Care Collaborative.
I am currently an MD/MBA student at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Business School. My work, research, and advocacy focus on improving healthcare delivery for underserved populations with complex medical and social needs. I serve as the Managing Assistant Editor for Healthcare: The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation, a peer-reviewed medical journal. Most recently, I started the COVID-19 Health Literacy Project (now the Community Health Literacy Project) to create and translate COVID-19 information into 40+ languages for non-English speaking patients sidelined during the pandemic.
As a champion for education equity, I am the founder and CEO of ProjectCSGIRLS, an international nonprofit dedicated to encouraging middle school girls in STEM. To date, the organization has reached over 15,000 girls in 12 countries. I also co-founded the Action and Civic Tech Scholars Program to teach civic technology to underrepresented high school students in Dorchester, MA.
