Biography

I am a researcher with interests in disaster management, sustainable architecture, accessible design, and disability justice. I completed my undergraduate education at Williams College (class of 2025), where I majored in geosciences with a concentration in coastal and ocean studies. My academic career is guided by a deep curiosity about design in extreme environments, including both physical extremes (climate change, natural hazards, resource scarcity, and geographic isolation) and social extremes (crisis and conflict zones, cultural marginalization, and economic disparity). My undergraduate thesis mapped the effects of inundation on critical infrastructure in hurricane-prone coastal Louisiana, raising questions about infrastructure resilience (or lack thereof) in disaster zones. My MPhil research will investigate the architectural evidence of disability in protracted displacement, focusing on how displaced disabled individuals adapt to “temporary” residences and resist spatial violence.As a Deaf and multiply disabled researcher, my lived experiences profoundly inform my work and my commitment to adaptive design solutions that challenge structural inaccessibility and disability exclusion.

Previous Education

Williams College Geosciences