I completed my B.S. in Child Psychology at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities in 2015 and subsequently worked in the mental health field until 2022, when I joined Rutgers University's Anthropology program as a master's student.
For my Master's thesis, I investigated the "Deservingness Heuristic," exploring how humans internally assess deservingness in others. This research is crucial for understanding strategies for cooperation amid future social and climate disasters. One such strategy is "mutual aid," which promotes community members exchanging resources based on need. While my interests encompass both cultural and evolutionary anthropology, my primary focus lies in the evolutionary underpinnings of human cooperation and behavior. Now that I have entered the PhD program, I plan to expand my research on the evolution of human cooperation by comparing the crisis response strategies utilized by small-scale communities in disaster-prone areas.