About

I’m a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) and PhD candidate broadly interested in psychosocial stress and trauma, social determinants of health, the nervous system, and physical-mental health connection.

As a PhD candidate, I spend my time on end-to-end quantitative research projects (i.e., conception to presentation). Alongside my psychology and neuroscience training, I’ve developed skills in research design and methodology, descriptive and inferential statistics, regression models, data visualization, and science communication. Working primarily with R and large health-related cohort datasets, I explore complex research questions using advanced statistical analyses (e.g., moderation, mediation, structural equation modeling); contextual, psychosocial, and behavioral measures; and biological data. I’m particularly interested in how data-driven methods can expand our understanding of how social determinants influence the nervous system and health; and the potential to transform the way we promote health and well-being, especially for marginalized and underserved populations.