In my research, I've worked on projects that are community-based or focus on justice oriented technology design. I am currently a third-year PhD student in the Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology (HSD) program at Arizona State University and an NSF Graduate Research Fellow. My research interests center on promoting collective and individual sovereignty over health data, especially by learning from grassroots health justice organizations that seek to promote self-determination and bodily autonomy. I am also interested in technology co-design, critical technical design, and future-thinking methods that bring designers together with communities to question power structures in health. Before the PhD, I worked with the Center for Integrative Research in the Computing and Learning sciences and volunteered with Philly Power Research.

I hold  B.S. in Cognitive Neuroscience (Magna Cum Laude) from Drexel University and am also a professional dancer.​

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