I am a Postdoctoral Researcher studying supermassive black hole environments using explosive transients at the University of Texas at Austin with Prof. Sebastian Gomez. I received my Ph.D. from UC Santa Barbara in Astrophysics in December of 2024. My work with Las Cumbres Observatory included a research focus on tidal disruption events (when black holes unravel a star!) and regular contributions to the Global Supernova Project. I've also worked previously on galaxies, both with observations (measuring reionization rates of galaxy groups) and simulations (relating mergers to AGN rates). I obtained my B.S. with honors in Astrophysics from the University of Florida.

I spend my free time advocating for voting rights, running, and reading books. I am the founder of STEMocracy, a research and digital media project about civic engagement (and the lack thereof) among STEM students and academics.