Welcome! 

C.V.

​I am a rising fifth-year doctoral student in the Department of Psychology at Columbia University; I primarily work with Dr. Larisa Heiphetz in the Social and Moral Cognition Lab. 

My research leverages methods from developmental, social, and cognitive psychology to understand how reasoning during childhood lays the foundation for how adults think about topics related to fairness, justice, and morality. My work has appeared in outlets such as Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Child Development, Social Cognition, and Journal of Cognition and Development. 

I am currently thinking about the following questions (see 'Research' tab for more information):

• To what extent do children and adults view punishment as a vehicle for redemption?
• How do punishment-related concepts emerge, percolate, and change throughout development? To what extent does social input shape these concepts?
• What are the psychological roots of inequality?

​Before coming to Columbia, I received my B.S. in Human Development from Cornell University and my M.S. in Law from Northwestern University Law School.