My Journey
Driven by an unwavering desire to make an impactful difference by leveraging my experience, skills, empathy, and intuitions to understand the needs of others and then collaboratively build fit-for-purpose solutions to meet their goals and aspirations.
My Work Today
Today, my work sits at the intersection of healthcare, innovation, strategy, and organizational change.
I focus on building partnerships across disciplines and sectors, advancing more human-centered and equitable approaches to healthcare, and helping organizations navigate complex challenges through systems thinking and collaboration.
More than any particular title, I want to be known as someone who brings people together, asks better questions, and creates the conditions for meaningful progress.
The Path I Took
Drawn to a Simple Question:
What Shapes Lived Experiences?
Long before I worked in clinical research or healthcare innovation, I was drawn to a simple question: What drives the lived experiences of people and communities, and how can we work together to improve those experiences?
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That question shaped my undergraduate experience at Vassar College, where I found myself just as interested in biology as I was in psychology, sociology, English studies, and community engagement. Whether conducting public health fieldwork, supporting community organizations, or facilitating dialogue across diverse religious & spiritual groups, I became increasingly fascinated by the relationship between people, the environments they live in, and the systems that influence their opportunities to thrive.
I learned that meaningful change begins not with assumptions, but with listening - understanding people's experiences, motivations, barriers, and aspirations before designing solutions.
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Training in public health gave me frameworks & methodologies to pursue that curiosity with rigor.
An MPH in Sociomedical Sciences from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health taught me to think about health as something shaped by systems, environments, and the spaces between people, not just what happens inside a clinic.
A PhD in Community Health and Social Sciences from the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy gave me the methodological discipline I reach for in every project: qualitative inquiry, human-centered design, community-based participatory research, mixed methods - the practice of understanding the why before anyone touches the how.
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Through research roles across academic medical centers, hospitals, nonprofit organizations, startups, and eventually pharma/biotech, I learned to combine qualitative inquiry, behavioral science, implementation science, human-centered design, and mixed-methods research to understand complex healthcare challenges and translate those insights into practical interventions.
Additionally, I found that across projects ranging from community-based obesity prevention to digital health interventions to clinical development and artificial intelligence, a consistent theme emerged: the most impactful solutions are rarely created by one discipline alone. They are built through collaboration, bringing together researchers, clinicians, patients, technologists, business leaders, and communities to solve problems collectively.
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As my career evolved, so did my perspective on where meaningful change happens. I became increasingly interested not only in designing effective interventions/solutions, but also in understanding how organizations make decisions, how innovation scales, and how strategy, incentives, and leadership shape the adoption of new ideas.
That realization ultimately led me to pursue an MBA, not to change careers, but to expand my ability to bridge science, business, and organizational transformation. It reinforced my belief that lasting impact requires more than evidence alone - it requires aligning people, systems, and strategy around a shared purpose.