I am a Wu Tsai Institute Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale, working with Elizabeth Goldfarb (Psychiatry) and Wendy Berry Mendes (Psychology). I got my PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at Dartmouth College with Emily Finn, using neuroimaging and behavioral methods to study how we integrate incoming information with existing knowledge. I focused on why two people—or the same person at different times—can perceive identical information differently, and how these differences shape reinterpretation and memory. That work was supported by an NIMH F31 NRSA Fellowship and an NSF GRFP. In my postdoc, I am extending this work to brain–body–behavior interactions. I examine how endocrine and physiological processes shape these behaviors, with a particular focus on stress. I tend to favor more "naturalistic" paradigms, but I also try to balance the richness of real-world stimuli with the experimental control needed to isolate specific mechanisms.

Before graduate school, I received my Bachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago, where I completed my undergraduate thesis with Daniel Casasanto and was fortunate enough to also work with Christopher Gomez and in the Awh-Vogel Lab. Following graduation, I worked at Stanford in Josef Parvizi’s lab.

I care a lot about teaching. I've taught at all ends of the spectrum, from Pre-K to older adults. Most recently, I've designed and taught 5+ discussion-based neuroscience and psychology courses for adults 50+ at Dartmouth's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. I also care about bringing science outside the lab: check out ArtLibs, our project with Dartmouth's Hood Museum.