I grew up in Western and Eastern Massachusetts, and am an alum of Brown University, where I concentrated in Cognitive Science in the CLPS department, with a focus on developmental science and education. I got started thinking about questions related to developmental science as an intern in the Massachusetts State House following my first year of college, and during that same summer spending time with my younger sister, who had just finished kindergarten. I set off on a path to find answers about how development worked—and what we could do to support it—lines of questioning that continue to run through the core of my research today.
At Brown, I had formative experiences working in the Causality and Mind Lab with Dave Sobel and Nadia Chernyak (now at UC-Irvine), and in the Visual Reasoning Lab with Karen Schloss (now at UW-Madison). Before moving to the University of Chicago, I started my PhD at Cornell University, where I was a graduate student in the Departments of Human Development and Psychology, and was mentored by Katherine Kinzler (now at the University of Chicago), Tamar Kushnir (now at Duke University), Vivian Zayas, and Melissa Ferguson (now at Yale University). Since 2019, I have lived in the Bucktown neighborhood of Chicago with my partner, Cody, and our two wonderful—though mischievous—cats, Huck and Finn.
At Brown, I had formative experiences working in the Causality and Mind Lab with Dave Sobel and Nadia Chernyak (now at UC-Irvine), and in the Visual Reasoning Lab with Karen Schloss (now at UW-Madison). Before moving to the University of Chicago, I started my PhD at Cornell University, where I was a graduate student in the Departments of Human Development and Psychology, and was mentored by Katherine Kinzler (now at the University of Chicago), Tamar Kushnir (now at Duke University), Vivian Zayas, and Melissa Ferguson (now at Yale University). Since 2019, I have lived in the Bucktown neighborhood of Chicago with my partner, Cody, and our two wonderful—though mischievous—cats, Huck and Finn.