I'm a 27 year old Boston native living in Dallas, TX. Both my parents were entrepreneurs, so I grew up with new ventures as my older siblings and their work as my early education. Ever since, I've been excited by the pace, impact, and opportunity of entrepreneurship. In college, I pursued a degree in Urban Studies, cultivating a set of values and lenses I now use to understand and engage with the world around me. These two halves of myself met when I joined the Venture for America fellowship to spend 2 years living in an emerging US economy working for a startup.

For the last 4.5 years, I have worked at a TX-based career accelerator called Codeup, which helps career transitioners land and earn jobs in software development and data science. When I joined, we were a team of 10, and I handled all basic operations and sales. With that base of experience, I then became a builder and a fixer, spearheading projects like the launch of a Data Science program, the scaling of a program delivery team, the turnaround of our compliance department, a geographic expansion to Dallas, and most recently a resconstruction of our business development and placement department.

I've also had a few forays into my own endeavors, including partnering in the founding of a mindful meditation cushion and assisting with the launch of a Southeast Asian style street food restaurant. All of these experiences have cultivated my primary professional mission: to build sustainable business solutions that solve pressing socioeconomic issues.