About Me

I’m a native Bostonian presently working full time as a Sponsored Research Administrator at Harvard University’s Department of Stem Cell & Regenerative Biology. I am also an MBA student at Babson. I attended Boston University for my BA, where I studied psychology and business administration. While at BU, I also studied Spanish and Mandarin, and spent one semester in Barcelona. As such, I speak some Spanish and have an appreciation for Canal+ and Spanish reds, specifically Riojas.

After college, I spent three years as a Grants Manager in the Department of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School. While working, I completed the Certificate in Publishing and Communications at the Harvard Extension School. I then promptly and naively began 2004 with a move to New York City.

In November 2011, after many jobs, four apartments, and seven years of writing, publishing, and mingling, I left NYC for Boston and returned to my old field, which changed as much as I did over the course of those seven years. I returned to my hometown with assertiveness, networking skills, a larger rolodex, a better shoe collection, the ability to budget and live within my means, a mental database about the biggest names on The Street, a fascination with Conscious Capitalism, and a fear of Genetically Modified Food.  

I learned a lot in NYC about people and life, and also about the concepts of “happiness” and “dreams.” I believe in aspiring to find balance in life, across work, personal life, and to quote Starbucks’ Howard Schultz, “The Third Place.” It took me two years, but I finally decided that I did want an MBA and for me, not my parents. This website details my experiences in NYC and the return to Boston, my takeaway from the corporate media world, my experiences as a business woman in academia, and my journey to and through the MBA.