I am a native San Diegan. I did my undergraduate work at San Diego State University where I received a bachelor's degree in psychology and a minor in statistics. As an undergraduate I worked in a Sensation and Perception lab with Dr. David Kobus. I was involved in research projects including the investigation between motion sickness susceptibility and visual afterimages and the other exploring bi-sensory facilitation.

I currently work as a research scientist at Pacific Science & Engineering. Here my work includes projects such as Augmented Cognition funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. This project is investigating physiological responses during cognitive workload in an effort to create design solutions for the enhancement of the exchange and use of information between humans and machines. My work also includes projects devoted to the reduction of medical errors occurring during health care delivery.

As a master's student in the Brain Development and Imaging Lab, stemming from my interest in bi-sensory facilitation, my thesis employed fMRI technology to compare neurological activity between adolescents with autism and normally developing individuals while performing a task with bisensory facilitory effects.