Lab Work, Research & Internships

Applied Moral Psychology Lab, Research Assistant, Cornell University NY (Aug 2024 - Present)

RA to Dr. Laura Niemi in the Applied Moral Psychology Lab.  Conducted literature reviews, coded data, and provided feedback to PhD students in the lab. Currently working on a senior honors thesis investigating how AI anthropomorphism and moral decision type (utilitarian vs. deontological) shape people’s comfort, moral judgments, and perceptions of machine mind.

Psychology of Gender, Teaching Assistant, Cornell University NY (Aug 2025 - Present)

TA to Dr. Lauren Korfine. Helped create and grade exams, read student papers, answered questions and led group discussions. 

Introduction to Human Ecology, Teaching Assistant, Cornell University NY (Aug 2025 - Present)

TA to Dr. Marianella Casasola. Responsible for taking attendance, helping to formulate and grade assignments, and working with students from a wide variety of majors, from fashion design to biology.  

Innocence Research Lab, Research Assistant, Cornell University NY (Mar 2024 - Jan 2025)

RA to Dr. Michael Toglia in the Innocence Research Lab. I was the lead RA and founder of the Life After Exoneration Project, where we worked with exonerees to better understand their experience with discrimination after being found innocent and released from prison.

Dr. Stalias-Mantzikos, Research Assistant, SUNY Westchester (Mar 2023 - Aug 2023)

RA to Dr. Stalias-Mantzikos. Responsible for gathering and organizing data and reviewing research for an ongoing inter-collegiate collaborative study examining factors relating to chronic illness that affect adaptation or burnout, including locus of control, spirituality, sense of coherence, and cognitive attentional syndrome.

Education and Psychology Fieldwork, Bell Sherman Elementary School, Ithaca, NY (Aug 2023 - Dec 2023)

As part of fieldwork for Art of Teaching and Psychology of Education, served as Teacher’s Assistant and helped first and fifth graders with class and homework. Worked with several international students who were not English speakers.

Lenox Hill Hospital, Neurosurgery Intern (Summer 2023)

Shadowed neurosurgeons at top New York hospital; observed surgeries and attended seminars and lectures led by surgeons, PAs, NPs, and administrative staff.

Spiral Giving, Board Member, Westchester, NY (Sep 2022 - Aug 2023)

Served initially as an intern, and then as a Board Member, for a philanthropic organization providing grants to local non-profit organizations. Responsible for organizing meetings and fundraising events and reviewing grant applications.

Byram Hills HS Senior Internship, Teacher’s Aide, Wampus Elementary School, Armonk, NY (Apr - Jun 2022)

Acted as Teacher’s Assistant and helped teach on-level and special education classes for fifth grade children with dyslexia, ADHD, and other learning differences.