From an early age, I recognized the inequality in my home of New Orleans and in the South in general. Even as a teenager, I was thinking, ‘How am I paying it forward, ensuring I can make education more accessible?’

I left New Orleans for college in San Antonio at @trinityU to pursue neuroscience as an undergraduate and @BrownU for my Ph.D. Neuroscientists are curious people, and we tend to kind of be interdisciplinary people, too. I'm always still learning and am inquisitive and humble. Early on in my administrative career, I recognized that I wasn’t going to be an expert in a lot of these different spaces in terms of academic concentrations, but I always want to ask questions and understand where people are coming from — and meet them where they are. My current work is in conceptualizing a strategic plan to build a more diverse, equitable inclusive space at @PrincetonSPIA. That ranges from not only the student arena but also thinking about faculty and staff. We have a really great opportunity here to think about the areas at @Princeton that we would like to expand upon in terms of the curriculum and faculty and researcher expertise.