My background is in biology, psychology, and epidemiology, and my specific interests are in stress, resilience, and coping mechanisms, as well as social determinants of health and long-term outcomes of infectious disease. Some of my strongest passions include rural health disparities, community-based participatory research, and biopsychosocial perspectives on health. My thesis research is on the associations between perceived stress, sleep duration, and post-acute fatigue sequelae of COVID-19, and I currently work as a graduate research assistant for the University of Arizona's Student Aid for Field Epidemiology Response (SAFER) and CoVHORT programs by investigating chronic outcomes of COVID-19 and enteric diseases. I’m very excited to continue my education through the Health and Behavioral Science program at CU Denver!