I'm a UX researcher who's curious about why people do what they do, whether that's how our bodies respond to stress, how groups make decisions, or how someone picks a coffee shop to work from.

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I studied biology at Case Western Reserve University because I wanted to understand how humans work. But it was actually my sociology classes that shifted how I think. Learning about social determinants of health, how systems and inequality shape people's lives, made me realize

 

I cared less about the science in isolation and more about the people inside the systems. I carried that lens into healthcare, and eventually into my M.S. in Human-Computer Interaction at DePaul, where I got to combine all of it: the analytical thinking, the human-centered stuff, and the obsession with asking "but why?"

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Outside of research, I'm rediscovering my love for the violin, and I'm always in the middle of a book. Right now it's The Count of Monte Cristo, but my favorites include Everything is Tuberculosis and The Song of Achilles.