I am a Ph.D. candidate working with Dr. Sarah Brosnan in the Cognitive Sciences program at Georgia State University. I am interested in studying the relationship between hormones and social cognition, particularly with regards to the evolution of social attention and decision-making behavior. I use comparative approaches to study these topics.

Prior to graduate school, I spent two years as a post-baccalaureate fellow at the National Institute of Mental Health in the Laboratory of Brain and Cognition where I investigated holistic face processing in rhesus macaques using fMRI and behavioral techniques. Before that, I worked at the National Zoo and studied the impact of diet on regurgitation and reingestion behaviors of gorilla and orangutan groups. I received my bachelors degree in Animal Behavior from Bucknell University where I completed an independent study project to determine if squirrel monkeys have a concept of identity.