🏅 In high school, I was in award-winning state math league, science olympiad, and choir groups; outside of school I stayed busy in my community, exploring the outdoors with regular hiking and camping, and earning the rank of Eagle as a Boy Scout.
🏫 I moved to Central MA in 2009 to start my consecutive degrees in physics from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI).
✈️ In 2012, I spent a term abroad in Australia applying my learning to aid non-profit with high speed rail design proposal; I also climbed the Sydney Harbor Bridge and chilled with kangaroos, koalas, wombats, and devils in Tasmania.
💸 Since 2013, I have raised over $6k for Boston Children’s Hospital through an annual campaign called Extra Life. This began as an annual 24-hour gaming marathon, but I am working on expanding awareness and events (including live-streams and competitions) throughout the year.
🏞️ I love finding mountains to camp on during the summer, snowboard down during the winter, and hike anywhere in between. In 2019, I climbed to Uhuru Peak on Mt. Kilimanjaro, the highest point of the tallest freestanding mountain in Africa!
🎦 I defended my dissertation over Zoom in 2020 due to the COVID pandemic, which was a first for the WPI Physics Department.
🎸 I play a number of musical instruments including trombone, guitar, bass, mandolin, ukulele, and on rare occasions ocarina. In 2022 I joined FireHoney, an alternative rock band from Springfield, MA.
🐕 I have a spunky, funky, smelly, silly greyhound who loves cookies, long walks, and taking up the whole bed!
🍪 I recently got into baking and have been primarily exploring different kinds of recipes for cookies and pizzas, and I am looking forward to breads…
📅 I am now in Western MA teaching full-time at Mount Holyoke College!