Before transitioning my career into criminal justice reform, I worked for over a decade in academic research. My recently I was a Postdoctoral Research Associate advised by Yael Niv at Princeton Neuroscience Institute & Department of Psychology. Broadly, my work focused on mood and decision making, and later more specifically on the computational foundation of rumination and repetitive negative thinking.

You can view my academic work here.

I hold a PhD in Computational Psychiatry (Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry), an MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience -UCL) and a BA in Art & Psychology (University of Reading).

During my academic journey I have been passionate about the accessibility of higher education - whether that be making computational modelling and methods transparent to those working directly with clinical populations, or teaching as part of NJ Steps Prison Teaching Initiative in New Jersey. Teaching inside state prisons led to a deep interest in carceral issues which led to my career today.