“I was always an avid reader, and I think that played a role in my passion for education. It’s kind of funny that I chose higher ed as a career; no one in my family went to college until my sister. Books made my world bigger. By reading, I got a glimpse of the different places and people out there. To me, education seemed like the pathway to meet those people, go to those places, and do those things that sounded so amazing in books. I was an English major at the University of Pennsylvania. I had a work-study job in an admissions office on campus and got a full-time job in admissions after I graduated.

I thought about law school for a while and even worked at a law firm for a little under a year. I really missed higher ed and realized that was where I wanted to be. I got a job at Temple University and completed my master’s degree there before coming to Princeton. This is now my third position at the university. I work in the undergraduate program office at SPIA, and my two biggest responsibilities are course administration and funding, mainly for internships for our students and senior thesis research.