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Academic Positions
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Health, Behavior, and Society
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
2026 - Present
Advisor: Roland J. Thorpe Jr.
Supported by NIA K00 Award. Fellowship focused on research and training in cognitive health and Alzheimer's disease/related dementias (AD/ADRD)
Research Expertise
Methods
- Longitudinal data analysis
- Group-based trajectory modeling
- Multi-trajectory modeling
Research Areas
- Healthcare discrimination
- Diversity and representation in clinical trials
- Social determinants of health
- Cardiovascular epidemiology
- Aging
Education
PhD, Population Health Sciences
Duke University School of Medicine
2025
Dissertation: "Getting to the Heart of Discrimination in Healthcare"
Dissertation Committee:
- Chair: Matthew E. Dupre
- Emily C. O'Brien
- Ann Marie Navar
- M. Alan Brookhart
- Roland J. Thorpe Jr.
BA, Anthropology with Honors
Dartmouth College
2021
Minor in Environmental Sciences
Thesis Advisor: Elizabeth Carpenter-Song
Honors & Awards
Person-in-Training Award, Health Sciences Section
Gerontological Society of America
November 2025
The Person-in-Training Award is given to a student of the Health Sciences section for the best student paper at the Society's Annual Scientific Meeting. The award is designed to encourage research and to foster interest among students in the Health Sciences section and to encourage participation in the Society's Annual Scientific Meeting.
F99/K00 Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Fellowship
National Institute on Aging (NIA), NIH
2024-2029
Awarded competitive NIH fellowship intended to support the transition of talented graduate students into successful research postdoctoral appointments.
Class of 1950 Award for Community Service
Dartmouth College, Department of Athletics
June 2021
This award goes "to the varsity student-athlete who has demonstrated the most extraordinary commitment to community service, as nominated by varsity head coaches and captains, and selected by the Director of Athletics, Dean of the College, and Director of the Center for Social Impact."
Legacy Award
Dartmouth College, Division of Student Affairs and Dean of College
June 2021
Legacy Awards recognize students whose efforts and accomplishments reflect one or more of the values that guide the Division of Student Affairs at Dartmouth. Given to 14 students annually.
Global Health Certificate
Dartmouth College, The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding
January 2021
From center website: "provides students with a framework to demonstrate the knowledge and skills they have acquired to address complex global health challenges in a changing world. The Certificate combines coursework from across the curriculum with a field experience in global health."
Service
Early Career Committee Member, Council on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research (QCOR)
American Heart Association (AHA)
July 2025 – Present
Member of the American Heart Association's QCOR Council Early Career Committee which "provide input regarding the Council's efforts to serve the needs of early career professionals"
Student Representative, Board of Directors
Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Sciences (IAPHS)
November 2023 – November 2025
Elected to serve 3-year term on the board of directors for IAPHS. Additionally, will chair the student committee during this term.
Founding Member, Population Health Sciences Graduate Student Association (PHSGSA)
Department of Population Health Science, Duke University School of Medicine
August 2023 – December 2025
Co-wrote initial charter, led submission of organization application, led first two elections, and co-led activities for the department-sponsored graduate student association for the department.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee Member
Department of Population Health Science, Educational Programs Group, Duke University School of Medicine
July 2022 – November 2024
Student Journal Club Organizer
Department of Population Health Science, Duke University School of Medicine
August 2023 – November 2024
Orchestrated the first Ph.D. student led journal club at the Department of Population Health Sciences at the Duke University School of Medicine. Which took place during the Fall Semester 2023 and 2024. 5 students and 2 faculty members presented.
Committee Member, Gordon G. Hammes Teach Faculty Award Selection Committee
Duke University School of Medicine
January 2024 – May 2024
Appointed to Duke School of Medicine Ph.D. student committee overseeing that oversees the selection process for the annual award which "recognize a faculty member for continuing excellence in teaching and mentoring, and for exemplary commitment to the education of graduate students within Basic Science Departments and Graduate Training Programs of the School of Medicine."
Generation Now Committee Member
A Most Beautiful Thing Inclusion Fund, Seattle, WA
April 2022 – April 2023
The A Most Beautiful Thing Inclusion Fund aims to build a diverse, inclusive, and equitable sport in rowing. The AMBTIF is housed as its own fund, under the umbrella of the George Pocock Rowing Foundation.
Erg and Student Services Data Analyst
George Pocock Rowing Foundation, Seattle, WA
November 2020 – November 2021
AmeriCorps VISTA: Up2Us Sports Inc
Supervisor: Kayla Cloud
Council Member
Council on the Library, Dartmouth College
September 2020 – June 2021
One of two undergraduate students appointed for academic year on council of faculty, students, and staff to provide feedback on Library operations and activities to the Dean of the Libraries and their leadership team
Dean Search Committee Member
Dartmouth College
June 2019 – November 2019
Black and First Generation Low-Income Assistant Dean position for the Office of Pluralism and Leadership at Dartmouth College.
Executive Board Member
Men of Color Alliance, Dartmouth College
October 2017 – June 2021
Executive Board Member
Globemed Dartmouth
September 2017 – September 2020
"Global Health university" team member and financial chair
