About

I came to design engineering sideways. A mislabeled college class turned out to be about rhetoric and multimodal storytelling, and a professor who drew unexpected lines between English literature and UX design changed the direction of everything. I ended up with a double degree in Informatics and English Literature, more coding classes than I planned, and a perspective on interfaces that I couldn't have gotten any other way.

The through-line across my work has always been accessibility — not as a compliance checklist, but as something I believe in personally. I grew up watching my mother struggle with a world not built for her, from navigating stairs to deciphering web content that had moved far past what felt approachable. That stayed with me. It's part of why I chose to work on LivelyLink, an aging-in-place app for caregivers. It's part of why my college capstone was a visual novel about invisible illness, built to validate people whose experiences were being dismissed before that conversation was mainstream. And it's part of why I've spent my career advocating for accessibility practices on every team I've been on.

My perspective is that disability is universal and inevitable. It's not a matter of if, but when — and the gap between an accessible product and an inaccessible one is the gap between someone being included or left out. That's what keeps me invested in the work.