I completed my undergraduate degree in physics at Butler University in 2010. While there, I studied the dynamics of galactic nuclei with Brian Murphy. After that, I spent a year at The University of Cambridge, where I earned my M.Phil under the supervision of Chris Tout. My masters thesis, The progentiors of electron capture supernovae, can be found here. Since coming to UCLA in 2011, I have been working with Andrea Ghez to study the kinematics of Galactic Center objects.