about me.

I’m a Fulbright Scholar and MIT Sloan Fellow who is obsessed with solving the world’s biggest people and planet problems. I’ve made it my life’s work to fight for our world’s most excluded people. I’m passionate about how we can make our world more inclusive for people who live at the margins of society. And, I get excited about finding innovative ways to do that. I co-founded Uncomfortable Revolution - a digital media platform on a mission to change the way we talk about chronic illness and disability. I’m also an artist and an educator, and once upon a time, I was a professional singer. I want to be a venture capitalist when I grow up, i.e. I want to drive capital and resources to fix large-scale global challenges.

True impact will come from connecting local innovators to capital and financing.

While working at the UN Refugee Agency, I really enjoyed working in the field on programs that foster bottom-up innovation among displaced populations. But, I feel that true impact will come from connecting local innovators to capital and financing. And so now I’m seeking a career in impact investing. I’m a Venture Capital Fellow at Material Change Institute, and I work as Director of Portfolio & Investment Strategy at Unreasonable Group.

A passion for local innovation and entrepreneurship.

Before joining the UN, I worked in South Africa, traveling around townships in Johannesburg and Cape Town, giving micro-entrepreneurial training and mentorship to asylum-seekers.