Education
Parson’s School of Design | The New School, Certificate in Equity, Inclusion, & Social Justice in Design, 2023
Columbia University, M.A. Sociocultural Anthropology, 2018
Carnegie Mellon University, B.S. Psychology, Photography Minor, 2016
Professional Advancement
Culture Source Collaborative R&D Labs, 2025-Present
NEW Champions for Change, 2024-2025
Michigan Press Photographers Association, Portfolio Reviewer, 2024
Mountain Workshop, 2023
Women Photojournalists of Washington Portfolio Review, 2023
Bronx Documentary Center Portfolio Review, 2023
Select Solo Exhibits
Being Seen, Ann Arbor Downtown Library, 2025
Select Group Exhibits
Making it: $napshots from the Artist Pay Project, University of Michigan, 2024
Impact of Exchange, Traveling Exhibit, Photoville x U.S. Department of State, 2023-2024
Visual Research for Social Change, Columbia University, 2018
Harvard University National Collegiate Research Conference, 2016
MOSAIC Gender Conference, Carnegie Mellon University, 2016
Pittsburgh Filmmakers, 2015
Why People Photograph, Magenta Foundation, 2015
Carnegie Mellon College of Fine Arts, 2014, 2015, 2016
Select Talks & Teaching
University of Michigan, Storytelling for Social Change, Ginsberg Center, 2025 – Guest Lecturer
Ann Arbor Downtown Library, Expanding Constructs, 2025 – Artist Talk
Creative Reaction Lab Youth Leadership Program, This Is Me: Art Workshop, 2024 – Guest Lecturer
Carnegie Mellon University, Building Data Visualization Into Information Systems, 2024 – Guest Lecturer
Aerie, Real Talk: Changemakers Edition | The Importance of Storytelling, 2021 – Panelist
South and Central Asia Fulbright Conference, 2019 — Presenter
Your Vision Your Story, Chinmaya University, 2019 – Guest Lecturer
Lean In Conference, Columbia University, 2018 – Panelist
University of Massachusetts Boston, Managing in the Global Economy, 2018 — Guest Lecturer
Social Enterprise Conference, Harvard University, 2018 — Presenter
Visual Research for Change, Columbia University, 2018 — Presenter
Baltimore Youth Film Arts, 2016 – 2017 — Photography Instructor
TEDxCMU Talk: Photographs as Portals to Sensitivity, 2016 — Speaker
First Lecture: My Journey, Carnegie Mellon, 2016 — Speaker
Select Grants & Fellowships
Aerie Changemaker Grant, 2021
Tresemme x Vital Voices Leadership Incubator, 2021
US Fulbright Scholar Grant, 2018-2019
Fulbright-Nehru Critical Language Enhancement Award, 2018
Columbia University Graduate Student Research Grant, 2018
Columbia University Merit-Based Scholarship, 2017
Tartans Abroad Scholarship from Carnegie Mellon University, 2015, 2016
Andrew Carnegie Society Scholarship, 2016 Atlantis Project Merit Scholarship, 2015
Carnegie Mellon Small Undergraduate Research Grant, 2015, 2016
Carnegie Mellon Crosswalk Grant, 2016
Foundation for Sustainable Development, International Development & Media Advocacy Fellowship, 2016