About ME

I've always been fascinated with creating and learning about the world around me. Whether I was building with Magna-Tiles, NASA LEGO spacecraft, or disappearing into a good book, I was always looking for my next project. At 8 years old, I turned my childhood basement bathroom into a makeshift lab, white coat and goggles included. That curiosity never went away.

Throughout high school, I’ve chased it beyond the classroom: independent research, hands-on work in real labs, and summer programs spanning neuroscience, biomedical engineering, and astrophysics. I’ve also sat down with CEOs and scientists at biotech companies to get an honest look at how discovery actually happens: messy, slow, and nothing like it looks in textbooks.

That’s exactly what draws me in. I love the open questions in biology and biotechnology, and even more, the collaborative side of drug discovery. I know that breakthroughs come from teams of people with completely different expertise, all working toward the same goal. I keep putting myself into situations where I feel in over my head, and that's the place I learn and grow the most. 

Outside the lab, I mentor middle school girls from underrepresented backgrounds in STEM, an experience that has been very rewarding. I also paint with acrylics in my art studio and have an obsession with Greek mythology, which isn’t as far from science as it seems. Both are just different ways of asking why the world works the way it does.

In college, I want to keep chasing the questions biology hasn't answered yet, in rooms full of people who know things I don't. That's been the pattern since the basement lab, I just have better equipment now.