I am a PhD student working with Dr. Sarah Brosnan in the Cognitive Sciences program at Georgia State University. I graduated from UC Davis with my B.S. in Animal Science in 2022.

As an undergrad, I worked with cows at the UC Davis Dairy Facility and focused on welfare and husbandry management. I also worked in Dr. Karen Bales's lab where I completed research with titi monkeys looking at how a reduction in human contact and cognitive testing (due to COVID research limitations) influenced infant behavioral independence. In addition, I examined titi infant survivorship as a factor of their parents' pair relationship and prior parenting experience.

After graduating, I worked as a Research Technician at the University of Minnesota and completed a study on effort discounting in rhesus macaques.

My current interests are centered around primate social cognition and behavior, specifically in how social relationships shape behavior, learning, and decision-making. I am also interested in the connection that hormones have with these behaviors.