I am currently the Upper School Director at Khan Lab School in Mountain View, CA.
Before that, I was the Science Department Chair at Sequoyah High School in Pasadena, CA. There, I started the STEM Institute and managed the Talking Leaves program, in which every student gives a dissertation-style talk at the end of each semester.
I received my PhD in Astronomy and Astrophysicsfrom UCLA. As a graduate student in UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy, I worked with Ben Zuckerman studying the evolution of planetary systems. My particular interest was in finding the ages of the stars which host dusty debris disks through a variety of methods in order to better understand how these debris disk parameters evolve over time.
I am also very interested in STEM outreach, education, and communication, and served as the outreach coordinator for Astronomy Live! for two years. I am also the co-founder of the SciComm Hub - an international network of graduate students interested in STEM communication. I am co-founder and CEO of Signal to Noise Magazine - a science magazine written by scientists for the general public.
Any thoughts expressed on this website are my own, and are not representative of Khan Lab School or any other current or former employers.