About me

I strive to be a modern day renaissance woman.

My interests span tech, performing arts, languages, design, and personal development. I’ve been really lucky to have the opportunity to pursue all of those things in my life. I completed 3 degrees in my 4 years of undergrad at Carnegie Mellon University, and graduated phi beta kappa and summa cum laude with honors. After graduating, I spent the first 9 years of my career at Google as a Software Engineer and Sr. UX Engineer (I joined back when they had 8k employees; I put doodles on mobile and built the toolbar in search you’ve maybe used!).

Outside of my formal career, I’ve gotten to perform as a doubles acrobat at venues up and down the Bay Area. I designed and produced several board games. And I've pursued excellent experiences. I spoke German through my entire immigration appointment when I briefly lived in Berlin. I was treasured with the chance to choreograph the first dance at my sister’s wedding. I’ve had a pretty amazing life so far and I’m very grateful for it.

But if you’re reading this you probably want to hear more about the work I’ve done on productivity and motivation. After leaving corporate tech to pursue a Master’s in Cognitive Neuroscience and research at the UC Berkeley Neuroeconomics Lab, I have had the opportunity to turn an academic lens on my interest in decision making, personal development, and motivation.

I’ve always been a little bit obsessed with motivation – I mean, I wrote my master’s thesis on it.

But that thesis exists not because of the 100+ books I’ve read on the topic, but because I had a “this is not my beautiful life” moment. I felt dissatisfied and burnt out in a career that I used to love. I was making great money, had achieved financial independence, and was excelling at my hobbies at a semi-professional level. But something wasn’t right. I was feeling unmotivated and uninspired. I didn’t know what I wanted, but this wasn’t it. I felt stuck.

I went on a journey to figure out how to get myself back to a place of inspiration and drive. And it was hard; it took years to try to figure out what I really wanted to do. I had to work up the courage to leave a pretty solid job, I had to tear down a lot of assumptions about what I should want to get to what I actually wanted. And more than anything, that’s the journey that I think makes me prepared to help other people down that path.

If you’re ready to define success for yourself and do the work to get there, I am here to support you.