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