I am a psychiatry resident with interests in neuroscience and narrative medicine. I was raised in Michigan and earned my bachelor's degree from Michigan State University, where I majored in Neuroscience, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, and English literature. As a Marshall Scholar, I completed a PhD in Clinical Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge. My doctoral research demonstrated that modifying sugar molecules in the optic nerve can improve the regeneration of injured neurons. As a medical student at Washington University, I contributed to research and creative projects that engaged with topics in narrative medicine and got an MFA in fiction writing from Boston University. I am currently a resident in the Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean Hospital (MGH/McLean) General Adult Psychiatry Residency Program in Boston.