About

The moment that changed everything.

It started at an event I was producing. I had spent more than a decade in experiential marketing — building large-scale experiences for clients like Nike and NASA, touring with artists, managing venues. I was good at it. And then Stephen Hawking came through a room I had designed, and I watched his assistive communication device at work.

That device was not an accommodation. It was the difference between Stephen Hawking participating in the world and not. It was technology doing the thing technology is supposed to do — expanding what is possible for a human being. I had spent years making experiences for people, and I had never thought about what technology was for in quite that way. Everything I've done since has been pointed in that direction.

The work now.

I'm a computer science student at Columbia University's School of General Studies, returning in Fall 2026. I research at Columbia's ROAR Robotics and Rehabilitation Lab, where the work is about how robotic systems can support human movement and recovery. I write The Unmapped — a series on accessibility gaps in AI design, organized around 13 Betterment Beams. I'm finishing two children's book series: the Mary Fern Brightside family and the Shellzing snails.

I also guide blind athletes across marathon finish lines with Achilles International. I study ASL. I teach adaptive yoga. I grow things in Central Park. These are not hobbies alongside the work. They are where the work comes from.

The thread.

The people closest to me include a blind software engineer, a wheelchair user, and a community of multilingual friends who move between English, French, and Spanish. I study ASL not as a credential but because the language gap in AI for signed languages is real and urgent and I want to understand it from the inside. My experience in disability sport is not separate from my interest in rehabilitation robotics. My years producing events — understanding what it means to design a physical environment for a thousand different bodies — directly shapes how I think about designing technology.

The career has looked nonlinear from the outside. From the inside, it has been one continuous question: who is this for? And what would it look like if it was for everyone?

Background.

Before the pivot to computer science, I spent over a decade in large-scale experiential marketing and event production, and before that, in the music industry — touring management, project management, operations. I hold a Certificate in Nonprofit Management from the Institute for Nonprofit Practice and was a New York Women's Forum Scholarship recipient. I was Executive Director of KEEN New York, and I completed coursework in Philanthropy and Social Difference at Columbia under Professor Rosner, through which I helped secure a grant for Exalt Youth.

I am an unpublished songwriter and poet. Music was the first language before any of the others.