🌱 Aptly described as a pragmatic hippy, I'm led jointly by empathy and evidence. While I am emotionally moved by injustices in the world, I am intellectually motivated to find effective solutions to them. As such, I am both a heart-led community organizer and a reason-based biological researcher. Often, I ask myself: given the resources that I have, how can I do the most good?

🔬 • I have published my research in Frontiers in Immunology, won a gold and a silver medal at the Canada Wide Science fair, and a second place prize at the Toronto Sanofi Biogenius Competition.
• For my Laidlaw project, I am conducting an independent research project with Professor Balachundhar at Harvard Medical School, to determine :what are the most effective, mindfulness-based meditations are in Calm and Headspace mobile applications? Through this project, I aim to begin to fill the precipitous gap between mental illness and accessibility to effective mental health interventions. 

🎓 I am second-year undergraduate student at Victoria College, the University of Toronto, majoring in Biodiversity and Conservation Biology and minoring in Environmental Studies and Buddhism, Psychology, and Mental Health.