I am a first year PhD student in Psychological and Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins University, advised by Christopher Krupenye. I'm broadly interested in comparative cognition, theory of mind, and the evolutionary roots of social intelligence.
My research focuses on how diverse evolutionary trajectories have led to distinct, or perhaps convergent, cognitive capacities. I study domestic dogs to assess how domestication impacts socio-cognitive capacities, as well as our closest living relatives, non-human great apes, to assess which of our complex cognitive capacities are shared.
I graduated from Boston College in 2025 with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a minor in Art History, where I worked under Angie Johnston in the BC Canine Cognition Center. I studied how domestication impacts responses to communicative cues by comparing dogs to Australian dingoes.
Outside of research, I love to be outdoors, make art, listen to music, and play with my cat Elliott.