I grew up in Foster City, California with my mom Laura, dad Jack and sister Shannon. I have always loved singing, and participated in musical theater, choruses, and an a cappella group along the way. I hold my own at guitar if you give me some easy chords to play. I also grew up playing baseball (1B/OF), soccer (Goalkeeper), and swimming. I still occasionally play in rec leagues around the Bay Area.

I grew up fascinated by psychology, sciences, and arts, and studied Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania. There I grew my appreciation for biological sciences, but became more and more interested with the business side of operating life science companies. I joined ZS Associates, a consulting firm with a focus in the life sciences industry. There I was privileged to be able to focus on building customer engagement strategy for oncology medicine manufacturers, learn core concepts in data-driven strategic decision making, and build operational skills. A call to entrepreneurship led me to UCLA Anderson’s School of Management to pursue my MBA.

The next step is to create products. My goal is to build products by developing Edily in the education space, creating experiences for customers that will change the way that education is shared in the world and improving access, comprehension, and the skills that make learning a valuable pursuit in our lives.

• Getting into (and out of) consulting
• Interview prep
• MBA stuff (applying, making most of experience, etc.)
• Connecting to people in my network
• Starting a company
• Fundraising strategy and execution
• Music, if you need a singer 🎤 🙂

• Finding and balancing activities outside of work
• Dealing with anxiety, brain fog, etc.
• Relationships (personal and professional)
• Choosing to go back to grad school
• Music 🎵

• An optimist, but still realistic
• Helpful as I can be
• A sounding board
• In the moment, listening, and providing my thoughts