Experience

Harvard University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Doctoral Graduate Student

  • Aug 2017 - Present

  My thesis work is with Dr. Alexander Soukas at Massachusetts General Hospital Boston. I am looking at the anti-diabetic medication, metformin, and its health benefits (anti-aging, anti-cancer). I use cell biology, genetics, and functional genomics to investigate how the nuclear pore complex changes in response to metformin and how nuclear transport is affected in response to the drug.During my PhD, I have also been involved in several student organizations. I served as President for the Minority Biomedical Scientists at Harvard in 2019Vice President for the Latinx Student Association in 2019/2020Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion for Harvard's Biotech Club in presentAssociate for the Harvard GSAS Volunteer Consulting GroupI have also served on the Harvard Coalition for Black Lives, Harvard's Mental Health Task Force Working Group on Graduate/Professional Studies.



McKinsey & Company

• Business Consulting and Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Diversity Connect Attendee

  • May 2022 - May 2022

  A 2-day event for diverse Advanced Professional Degree candidates to learn about consulting and McKinsey while connecting with peers and networking with inspiring McKinsey professionals. A 2-day event for diverse Advanced Professional Degree candidates to learn about consulting and McKinsey while connecting with peers and networking with inspiring McKinsey professionals.



San Francisco State University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Student Researcher

  • May 2014 - Jun 2017

  In the lab of Dr. Carmen Domingo I looked at the model organism, Xenopus Laevis in the context of Developmental Biology. We are interested in understanding how in-vivo dynamics influence cell differentiation and plasticity. However, the duration and parameters of this plasticity remain unclear. Previous work in our lab showed that neural fate specification occurs in an anterior to posterior fashion and involves the differential loss of cell plasticity. Using a cell transplantation approach, we grafted fluorescently labeled cells from the prospective anterior and posterior neural ectoderm to the prospective muscle region at various stages development and asked whether the grafted cells can adopt a muscle fate.

• Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

  • Jan 2014 - Jun 2014

  Grading homework and exams and inputting scores. Course was Introductory Biology for science majors, 250+ students enrolled.



NYU School of Medicine, Sackler Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) student

  • Jun 2016 - Aug 2016

  I worked in the lab of Dr. Tony Huang in the Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology department. This lab focuses on DNA repair pathways and how these pathways are regulated by post translational modifications. Nedd8 (similar to ubiquitin, a post translational modifier) is well studied for its activation of Cullin proteins. A less studied focus is whether Nedd8 could modify (neddylate) non-Cullin substrates. Preliminary data has shown that when SENP8 (a deneddylating enzyme) is knocked out, aberrant neddylation occurs. The focus of my project was to functionally characterize this aberrant activation through western blots and determine SENP8's role in non-cullin substrate neddylation.



Kaiser Permanente

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

• Summer Intern

  • Jun 2011 - Aug 2011

  I worked in the Human Resources department under Twylah Lacroix. I was responsible for administering hiring exams (such as typing tests), answering phone calls, managing the front desk, and updating the job board everyday with new listings. In addition to learning the ins and outs of HR, I was also responsible for attending weekly educational seminars where I heard from a variety of different people in the hospital such as nurses, doctors, and administration. This internship gave me a day-to-day perspective of how a hospital is ran and the many facets required to make it functional.