I am an NIH/NIDA T32 postdoctoral research fellow at the Dartmouth Center for Technology and Behavioral Health and a member of the play2PREVENT lab, which develops and evaluates evidence-based digital health games to promote youth wellbeing and prevent risk behaviors.

My research focuses on adolescent mental health and substance misuse prevention, with an emphasis on community-engaged methods, social determinants of health, and implementation science. My graduate and postdoc work at Emory contributed to a cluster-randomized trial testing a multi-level intervention to prevent drug use and promote wellbeing in rural reservation-based communities (Connect for Prevention).

I earned my PhD and MPH in Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Sciences from Emory University and a Bachelor's in Psychology with a certificate in Global Health & Health Policy from Princeton. Before graduate school, I worked at Duke University on longitudinal studies of maternal exposures and child development. During my master's program, I worked at the CDC on a randomized trial evaluating an intervention to support families and children living in poverty (Legacy for Children™).