I grew up in the suburbs of Baltimore, Maryland where I graduated from Beth Tfiloh in 2012. From there, I attended Clark University from 2012-2016, graduating with a Bachelors in Physics and a minor in Math. I got my first taste of experimental physics and teaching at Clark, and have been hooked on both ever since.

After Clark I worked as a long-term substitute math teacher at St. Paul’s School for Girls and the McDonogh school, both in Baltimore County. While teaching high-school math, I loved helping students see that math wasn’t as bad as they thought it was.

In 2017, I moved to Vancouver to start my PhD in Physics at the University of British Columbia. Initially studying quantum materials, after a couple years I decided that I cared more about my students than I did about electrons, so I switched my thesis to Physics Education Research. Along the way I worked on many education side projects including helping to move the first year engineering lab online during COVID, running TA training workshops in the Physics Department, and redesigning a computational physics course. I completed my PhD in September 2024.