I am originally from Evanston, Illinois. I received my B.A. in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. I continued to pursue my Science career in New York, where I worked in a laboratory at Columbia University Medical Center. While working, I applied to graduate school and entered in Fall of 2013. I am currently earning my PhD at New York University in Molecular Biophysics. I hope to one day apply my crystallography skills to advance the area of novel drug design. In my free time I enjoy traveling, running and playing lacrosse.