About

I currently work at Amazon as a senior user researcher. Previously, I managed customer insights and UX research at sister companies RevZilla and Cycle Gear, leaders in both e-com and brick-and-mortar motorcycle retail. Before RevZilla, I worked at National Geographic, where I helped worked as a coordinator for operations, customer experience, and e-commerce for the travel vertical (as well as visit Cuba, Botswana, Russia, and Mongolia). Prior to my work at Nat Geo, I had the amazing opportunity to live and teach in Armenia as a Fulbright Fellow at Yerevan State Linguistics University.

I studied at the University of Oregon, where I graduated Phi Beta Kappa with honors in Linguistics and minors in Anthropology and Japanese. My undergraduate honors thesis was focused on second language acquisition, and part of the research was recently published in the journal Language and Speech. During undergrad I fell in love with student leadership, and was the founding editor of the Oregon Undergraduate Research Journal. You can read more about my time as an undergrad here.

I owe my passion for culture, language, and people to my experience as a Rotary Youth Exchange student in Japan when I was 16.

I live near Seattle with my husband, where we take advantage of every moment away from our computers to hike, camp, and birdwatch all over the Cascades.