About
I received my Ph.D. in Micro-Organizational Behavior from Harvard Business School in 2026, where I was advised by Kathleen McGinn, Lakshmi Ramarajan, and Jeffrey Polzer. I am publishing research from my dissertation and will be on the academic job market in 2027. Alongside this work, I teach Harnessing Employee Talent: The Diversity Advantage in the Management Master’s Program at Harvard Extension School.
Prior to my doctoral studies, I received my A.B. in Psychology, with minors in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, from Princeton University, where I wrote my honors thesis with Ken Norman. I then spent two years as a Behavioral Research Fellow at the Kellogg School of Management. During my doctorate, I held the inaugural Ph.D. Research Fellowship at ghSMART, a leadership advisory firm, where I analyzed a subset of its archive of more than 30,000 executive assessments—data that became the foundation of my dissertation—and spent a summer in Human Capital at Apollo Global Management.
Research
I am passionate about what it means to stand alone at work.
My research examines why people end up as the only one of their kind in a group—sometimes by choice, sometimes by circumstance—and what that position does to their careers. Whereas most research treats solo status as something that happens to people, I focus on a prior question: when people choose it, and what they build when they cannot.
I pursue these questions in three streams: when competition leads people to choose solo status; what executives from underrepresented backgrounds build when standing alone is not a choice; and how the tools organizations use to identify talent treat these differences.
My research has appeared in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Academy of Management Proceedings, and Harvard Business Review. I have presented this work at Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Law School, INSEAD, Academy of Management, Society for Judgment and Decision Making, the United Nations, and across various corporate engagements.
Beyond Research
Outside of work, I have served on advisory boards that expand access to opportunity—a motivation that informs my research. First Tee – Silicon Valley, Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation, Chronic Disease Coalition