about me

I completed my undergraduate work at the University of California, Santa Cruz, to earn my B.A. in Anthropology. I was inspired to pursue this degree as I was fascinated to learn how people and cultures worked. I learned about topics ranging from monumental archaeology to neanderthal practices, to how the media and people shape each other. The knowledge I gained throughout this degree will allow me to have further insight into human behavior, which in turn creates stronger design.

During my time at UCSC, I took many opportunities to participate in research, including volunteer forest ecology at the UCSC Forest Ecology Research Plot, as well as grant proposal writing experience in my paleotology seminar, in which I completed a 5-page proposal on the effects of climate change on heritage sites in efforts to identify protections for at-risk locations. Furthermore, I participated in video coding and research proposal writing at the Primate Ecology and Molecular Anthropology (PEMA) lab, in which I gained a research paper acknowledgment. This lab also gave me further grant proposal writing experience by completing a comparative study on how human disturbance affected the presence of blue duikers in Tanzania and black-tailed. This research experience will allow me to be more familiar and comfortable with UX design research processes.

Another relevant experience I was able to obtain during my undergraduate studies was working with the UCSC Disability Resource Center as a peer notetaker. This background further aids my work in field of UX design