Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Ph.D. Georgetown University
B.A. Colorado College

I am a research scientist in developmental cognitive neuroscience at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and formerly at Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Since joining the Gaab Lab, I have investigated how poverty — and the biological and psychosocial hazards associated with it — affects brain development using structural and functional MRI techniques. Prior to that, I examined the motor system in the context of development, aging, and dyslexia, and the auditory system in the context of tinnitus, a condition characterized by the perception of sound in the absence of an external source.

Involvement in tinnitus research in particular spurred me to found a support group for tinnitus sufferers in D.C., which I led for seven years, and then later to serve on the board of directors for the American Tinnitus Association, where I inform on neurobiology related to tinnitus and the auditory system in general, and advocate for noise health issues.

I received my graduate training from Guinevere Eden, D.Phil. and the Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience at Georgetown University.