I am a Master’s student in Human Development at Cornell University, where I study moral psychology, social cognition, and how people make sense of harm, responsibility, and moral change. I will graduate in May 2027 and plan to apply to PhD programs in moral and social psychology.

My current research in Dr. Jordan Wylie’s WyLab examines how people forecast moral progress: specifically, whether perceived increases in knowledge shape predictions that currently tolerated behaviors will be morally condemned in the future. More broadly, I am interested in how people think about emerging or morally ambiguous issues, especially at the intersection of moral psychology, technology, and justice.

Previously, I worked in Dr. Laura Niemi’s Applied Moral Psychology Lab, where I completed a senior honors thesis on AI moral decision-making. That project examined whether people’s comfort with AI making utilitarian versus deontological trolley-problem decisions depends on how anthropomorphized the AI appears. I also founded and led the Life After Exoneration Project in Cornell’s Innocence Research Lab, where I worked with exonerees to document post-release experiences and patterns of discrimination. In earlier work, I contributed to a multi-institutional study on psychological adaptation to chronic illness.