I am a Program Director of the EMIT (Establishing Multimessenger astronomy Interdisciplinary Training) Program and a theoretical astrophysicist at Fisk University and Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. My role is centered on growing the field of Multimessenger Astronomy and exploring ways to embed authenticity and wellbeing into the fabric of our daily work as scientists, collaborators, mentors, and members of a broader community.

My research background in theoretical astrophysics focuses on modeling how supermassive black holes interact with their environments, and predicting how we might detect the signatures of those interactions through gravitational wave signals. Previous positions include a Tomalla Fellowship at the Department of Astrophysics (formerly the Institute for Computational Science) at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and a PhD from Columbia University advised by Zoltán Haiman, where I studied the interplay of accretion disks and coalescing supermassive black hole binaries.

I believe in building a sustainable scientific community. As a scientist, collaborator, and mentor, I embrace radical practices to challenge outdated academic norms and foster an environment where people of all backgrounds can contribute in all kinds of creative ways.