I am a developmental psychologist studying how stress gets under the skin in early development to affect long-term health and wellbeing. I am particularly interested in studying mechanisms that underlie associations between stress exposure and later physical and mental health outcomes during periods of rapid development, such as pregnancy and infancy. I aim to generate research identifying mechanistic levers that can serve as early intervention targets to ameliorate outcomes for young children with exposure to stress or adversity. 

I am a third-year PhD student at Northeastern University working with Dr. Brie Reid in the Research on Early and Integrated Development (REID) Lab. Before beginning my PhD, I worked with Dr. Charles A. Nelson at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in the Nelson Laboratory in the Laboratories for Cognitive Neuroscience. I received my B.S. in Psychology with a focus in Neuroscience from Yale University, where I worked as a research assistant with Dr. Dylan Gee in the Clinical Affective Neuroscience and Development Lab (CANDLab).