HELLO!

I currently serve as Program Officer at the Getty Foundation, with a focus on building racial equity in the arts and the future of work at museums and cultural institutions.

Optimism and a learner’s mindset have shaped my career. Training as a historian of early modernist science and visual culture led me to write Skepticism’s Pictures: Figuring Descartes’s Natural Philosophy (2023). It gave me the opportunities to teach in the Department of History at UCLA and in SCI-Arc’s Liberal Arts curriculum; and contribute as founding faculty at Cedars-Sinai’s Program in the History of Medicine. Whether researching at Shondaland and with the Mash-Up Americans or reimagining the interpretation of art and culture at The Huntington Library and Otis College of Art and Design, I’m at my best when I can apply my enthusiasm for relationship-building, systems-creation, and innovation to build a culture of belonging.

I live in Los Angeles, where serving on the board of the Feminist Center for Creative Work has been one of the great privileges of my life—second only to my husband and son.