About me

Current

I’m a Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow studying HIV transmission with Thomas Leitner and Ethan Romero-Severson at Los Alamos National Lab.

When I’m not working, I enjoy backpacking, climbing, running in the park, playing soccer and tennis, and generally being outdoors!

Past

I graduated with a dual degree in Bioinformatics (PhD) and Statistics (MA) at the University of Michigan where I studied infectious disease transmission, infection, and antibiotic resistance evolution in Evan Snitkin’s lab. I next did a two-year postdoc at the Duke Global Health Institute studying malaria parasite transmission between humans and mosquitos with Steve Taylor and Wendy Prudhomme-O’Meara.

At Michigan, I co-founded a Girls Who Code club that teaches high school women computational data analysis using Python, instructed Software Carpentry workshops, helped coordinate the Data Analysis Networking Group (DANG), and lead various coding activities for grade school children. While at Duke, I co-led two DiscovR workshops to teach data managers in Kenya foundational data analysis and visualization skills in R.