I am a doctoral candidate in the Cancer Biology Graduate Interdisciplinary Program at the University of Arizona. I study mechanisms of drug resistance and better targeted therapy for terminal cancers.

I grew up in Phoenix, Arizona. I moved to Tucson in 2011 to attend university. In 2015, I received my bachelor of science degree in biology with honors. I wrote my senior thesis on the DNA damage response in normal prostate endothelial cells versus prostate carcinoma.

As an undergraduate, I was a Teaching Assistant (we call them preceptors) for Introduction to Biostatistics. As a preceptor I held office hours, taught class lessons as needed and held test review sessions for students. After I preceptored, I continued to private tutor students in statistics.