​I am an energetic, open-minded, and flexible individual with a drive for success. These qualities have helped me during my undergrad years as a mentee under Dr. Bill McCarthy, Dean of the Criminal Justice School at Rutgers University-Newark. With him, I got to explore my passions in crime analysis, criminal justice reform, prison rehabilitation, immigration, and policing through various research projects and a self-made Honors Thesis project that won best poster at the 2021 Stanford Research Conference. During my years at UCD, I became mostly self-taught in R programming and ARCGIS, skills that I use to explore spatial analysis research in crime and policing in communities. 

While completing my Masters in Criminal Justice & Criminology at San Diego State University, I am privileged to be mentored by Dr. Burrel Vann Jr., who is overseeing my thesis project as well as supervising me as I work in his Social Policy and Justice lab. I am also working under Dr. Kimberly Kras on her 3-year Kitchens for Good Evaluation Project where I am expanding my skills as a researcher by using qualitative methods such as interviews and narrative research writing. 

After graduation from my M.S program, I aim to enter a PhD program in Criminology to continue my research on policing in immigrant communities. Later, I'll be applying as a government crime analyst. I plan on using my knowledge and passions to fight for vulnerable, under resourced, minority, over-policed communities like my hometown of San Diego. 

In my non-academic life, I enjoy reading fantasy novels, playing RPG video games, watching anime and k-dramas, listening to The Adventure Zone and Welcome to NightVale podcasts, and singing karaoke.

You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be! - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire