I am a student at Columbia University studying Political Science and Statistics. I am interested in the intersections between data, people, and the environment.
I am originally from Santa Barbara, California, and I am a rising senior at Columbia College. I am majoring in Economics-Mathematics. As an aspiring research economist, I am broadly interested in applied microeconomics, with a particular focus on assessing the efficacy of policy. Outside of academics, I am an enthusiastic pianist and fan of the composer Johann Sebastian Bach. In my first research summer, I studied the link between the COVID-19 Pandemic and the US Energy Market. I built an economic model of the Energy Market and seeing how an energy firm would respond to an exogenous shock to energy demand. In my second research summer, I worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on a number of research projects broadly related to international finance, the global consequences of monetary policy, and how capital moves across borders.
I am currently doing research at Columbia University pressure testing the modules that will contain and protect the GAPS mission's lithium-drifted silicon (Si(Li)) detectors. Previously, I interned at CCNY's IUSL and worked on a project centered around time-resolved Raman spectroscopy.
This summer under the auspices of the Laidlaw Scholars Program I will be researching Hippocratic works and other texts from ancient Greek medical discourse in order to ask questions around female agency and challenges to the female body. How are female bodies governed? How are bodies feminized in medical discourse? If one can consider a body as an object from which forces of political, social, and psychological agency or governance emerge, how does a body’s female identity confound this? I am interested in how material bodies are formed and gendered, how they are a site of biological or social domains. It is through medical writings and interrogating perceptions of the ancient Greek body that one may more clearly understand what elements of the human experience are valued.
