WELCOME
UX RESEARCHER AND DOCTOR OF ANTHROPOLOGY
Senior UX Researcher, Cognitive Medical Anthropologist, and former Cal-EIS Disease Detective. I’m driven by the opportunity to improve people’s lives and I thrive on team based, human centered projects. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area.
INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE IN BRIEF
- Big Tech — AI/ML for climate change mitigation, transportation, and consumer products @Google AIUX
- Digital Health Tech — @CDC and @Blue Shield of CA
- Ed Tech — Methods Mall training portal for the National Science Foundation
- Hospitality — Bar and retail @Future Bars
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- Recognized for teaching and mentoring hundreds of university students in quantitative and qualitative research methods
- Published several grant-funded studies on human health and culture in top science journals
- A trained epidemiologist, served for two years as a disease detective @Cal-EIS and CDC
- Angel investor @Validic since 2012, a health tech startup, which just closed a new investment round in Nov. 2022
- Co-founder of the PhD program in anthropology @Baylor U, a top 75 ranked, R1 institution
