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.

For me, the biggest challenge in AI product design isn’t the tech itself, but getting users to trust it. Every UX professional knows that empathy is at the core of what we do — it's the driving force behind the interviews we conduct, the journeys we map, and the hours we spend agonizing over a single confusing screen. In this field, ‘empathizing’ has always meant ‘empathizing with the user.’ But the systems I work on affect far more than just the people using them.

More and more, I find myself asking, “Who else am I designing for?”

My independent work follows that question to where I find it most overlooked: the treatment of non-human animals. I proposed a design framework for moving beyond human-centered AI, put it to the test by red-teaming frontier models for animal welfare blind spots, and developed an AI auditing tool grounded in sentient-centered design principles. I also build the tools I advocate for — my most recent project, Fallow, is an AI product for farmers transitioning away from animal agriculture. Across everything I do, I am guided by one goal: to create trustworthy, responsible AI.

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.