After earning an M.A. in education in 2017, I worked in the fields of education, healthcare analytics, and renewable energy before returning to school to study electrical engineering at CU Boulder.
I intend to subvert the trope of "jack of all trades, master of none" by becoming a highly skilled electrical engineer with a wide breadth of knowledge outside of my discipline (a "T-shaped" individual, if you will). I am currently finishing my final year in CU Boulder's electrical, computer, and energy engineering program.
As an engineer, I hope to spend equal parts of my career working on aerospace technology, medical devices, and sustainable energy systems.
Outside of work and school, I enjoy reading, getting outdoors to exercise, studying math, and playing piano and guitar.
As an undergraduate at Stanford University, I started out my academic career as a physics major. Much to my chagrin, though, I quickly realized I had no idea what I actually wanted to do as a physicist—physics is a broad field, and on its own, saying you want to "study physics" isn't saying much. On top of that, the nature of scientific discovery itself struck me as a significant moral conundrum: new knowledge can result in the development of good and bad applications, and I saw no use in furthering our understanding of the universe if it would likely lead to something bad.
Fortunately, the study of philosophy offered me a means of thinking clearly about this sort of moral dilemma. At the beginning of my junior year, I changed my major to comparative literature and spent most of my remaining time in school developing an ethical framework and thinking about what sorts of research and development were most likely to bring about positive change in the world.
After much consideration, I narrowed my scientific interests down to three main areas: aerospace technology, medical devices (especially imaging systems), and sustainable energy systems. Although these specializations constitute disparate fields in their own right, I figured I could divide my career between them and eventually get to work on everything I took interest in.
With a career plan firmly established, I resolved almost immediately after graduating from Stanford to go back to school and get the one thing I still needed to pursue my interests—a science degree!
