People fascinate me, especially at the moments when society bumps into something new and has to figure out how to respond. Most of my research lives there: stigma, technology, mental health, and the populations that tend to get left out of the conversation. What keeps me coming back to research is the process itself, asking a real question, building something to answer it, and ending up with findings that actually mean something.

In each of these roles, my job was to help people directly — from working with children with autism, to understanding the infrastructure behind therapy, to mentoring teenagers through service work, to getting my community outdoors safely. I am someone who can be leaned on emotionally and depended on professionally.

Music has always run alongside everything else — a space for expression that doesn't fit anywhere else. From film scoring to live radio, solo recordings to DJ sets, it's the thread that ties the rest together.