Experience

Boston University Sargent College

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Sep 2021 - Present

  Contributes to ongoing studies designed to explore connections between speech-related subskills, musical skills, and emergent literacy in early childhood. Contributes to ongoing studies designed to explore connections between speech-related subskills, musical skills, and emergent literacy in early childhood.



Harvard University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant, Songwrights Apothecary Lab

  • Mar 2020 - Present

  Examined music therapy literature and practices to create points of access for songwriters and composers who are interested in composing music for its healing properties

• Workshop Soloist, Iphigenia Opera Lab

  • Nov 2019 - Aug 2020

  Performed in workshops for a new opera composed by Grammy Award Winning Artists, Wayne Shorter and Professor Esperanza Spalding. The workshop series advanced exploratory and collaborative practices in opera performance and was observed by students at Harvard University.



Boston Children's Hospital

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Undergraduate Thesis Researcher, Gaab Lab

  • Jan 2020 - May 2021

  Supported by the Mary Gordon Roberts Summer Research Fellowship (2020). Conducted undergraduate thesis research examining relationships between the music environment and white matter organization in infancy. Developed the COVID-19 Home Environment Literacy Practices Questionnaire, presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2021 Meetings, to gauge changes in the home literacy and music environment in response to the closure of schools and daycare centers due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Supported by the Mary Gordon Roberts Summer Research Fellowship (2020). Conducted undergraduate thesis research examining relationships between the music environment and white matter organization in infancy. Developed the COVID-19 Home Environment Literacy Practices Questionnaire, presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2021 Meetings, to gauge changes in the home literacy and music environment in response to the closure of schools and daycare centers due to the COVID-19 pandemic.



Harvard University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant, The Music Lab

  • Sep 2018 - May 2019

  Tested subjects for a study on infant recognition of song types and catalogued songs for the acclaimed National History of Song project. Tested subjects for a study on infant recognition of song types and catalogued songs for the acclaimed National History of Song project.



The MGH/HST Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging

• United States
• Research Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Jun 2018 - Aug 2018

  Supported by the Lans Fund for Undergraduate Research and The Harvard College Research Program. Performed manual virtual dissections of the superior longitudinal fasciculus and other white matter tracts in adult human subjects to build a comprehensive adult white matter atlas for the FreeSurfer software suite for MRI analysis Supported by the Lans Fund for Undergraduate Research and The Harvard College Research Program. Performed manual virtual dissections of the superior longitudinal fasciculus and other white matter tracts in adult human subjects to build a comprehensive adult white matter atlas for the FreeSurfer software suite for MRI analysis



Albert Einstein College of Medicine

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Jun 2015 - Jul 2016

  Studied the efficacy of the Einstein Custom Cancer Panel in identifying clinically relevant genetic mutations in cancer patients using Next-Generation sequencing methods Studied the efficacy of the Einstein Custom Cancer Panel in identifying clinically relevant genetic mutations in cancer patients using Next-Generation sequencing methods