About

I studied Psychology at Johns Hopkins University, where I became fascinated by how people think, make decisions, and navigate complex systems. This curiosity eventually led me to UX, and I've spent the last four years leading research and design for regulatory compliance solutions at Wolters Kluwer. My work brings AI to a field that still runs on slow, manual processes. To date, I have shipped conversational search, intelligent document generation, and automated risk monitoring systems.

Across the many hundreds of products I’ve worked on and users I’ve spoken to over the years, my biggest takeaway has been this: mistrust in AI is a design challenge that keeps getting diagnosed as a machine learning one. Teams reach for a better model when what users really want is to understand why a specific action was taken and all the decisions leading up to it. That need has only grown as AI has moved from giving advice to taking action on people’s behalf. In complex domains like regulatory compliance and animal welfare, those actions increasingly shape outcomes for third parties who never interact with the system.

More and more, I find myself questioning who else I’m designing for — and noticing the non-human animals no one else seems to account for.

My independent work follows this observation into AI safety, a field where alignment is still measured almost entirely against human values. Coming into this work from UX, I’m uniquely equipped to both measure how AI treats animals and make the results usable by and for the people who can change it; I study how AI views non-human animals, communicates about them to its human users, and — ultimately — influences decisions where non-human animals are a factor. The solutions I build are shaped by each gap and the audience who can act on it, from frameworks and benchmarks for the people building AI to tools for the advocates working alongside it, all published through Consider Sentience.

When I'm not at my computer, you'll find me out and about — photographing birds, training for my next marathon, or dining at one of the many fabulous vegan restaurants here in New York.