WORK EXPERIENCE


(CURRENT) DESIGNER AT AFTER CO / 2023-2024
working on concept design through construction administration for residential and commercial projects in Los Angeles.
DESIGNER AT SPEEDBOAT / 2022-2023
worked on concept design through detailing for residential and commercial projects in Los Angeles.
INTERN AT HOOD DESIGN STUDIO/ Summer 2021
summer intern, focusing on a proposal for reclaiming highways as public space.
INTERN AT HART ASSOCIATES ARCHITECTS / Summer 2019 / 2022
summer intern, worked on schematic design of interior renovation and artist’s studio in Concord, MA.
TEACHING ASSISTANT
Seeing the City Afresh, instructor Garnette Cadogan (Spring 2021)
Perfomance Art Workshop, instructor Jesal Kapadia (Fall 2020)
Design Across Scales, instructor Lee Moreau (Spring 2020)

RESEARCH ASSISTANT / Summer 2021
worked with Cristina Parreño Alonso to create a video installation “Igneous Tectonics” for the 2021 Venice Biennale “How Will We Live Together?”


EDUCATION


MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Master of Science in Architecture / expected graduation 2022
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS
Bachelor of Science in Architecture 2014-2018
Summa Cum Laude / Dean’s List 2014-2017
UNIVERSITÄT STUTTGART
Study Abroad Semester / January-August 2017
Enrolled as full-time student at the University of Stuttgart in Stuttgart, Germany, completing architecture and German courses.


SCHOLARSHIP


GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP IN ARCHITECTURE
Full tuition merit-based scholarship to MIT for the Masters of Architecture program.
NUVU GRANT RECIPIENT/ 2019
$5000 research grant for project “Objects Not to Scale.” The research centers on Confederate monuments in Virginia.
FREDERICK WIDMANN PRIZE WINNER/ 2018
All school award, undergraduate winner, 2018. Given to a member of the undergraduate class who has demonstrated all around excellence in their student career at Washington University. “Through a bequest from the late Frederick Widmann, an annual prize of at least $1,500 is offered to the best architectural student in the University.”
JAMES W. FITZGIBBON SCHOLARSHIP FOR ARCHITECTURE
Full tuition scholarship for academic merit and potential success in architecture. Awarded annualy to one member of the incoming freshman class.
APPROACH 2015, 2018
Featured in the publication showcasing Washington University in St. Louis undergraduate architecture student work, including the cover of the 2018 issue.


LEADERSHIP


CO-CHAIR OF MIT NOMAS
/ 2019-2020
organized 2019 NOMAS competition entry and workshop (led by instructor Larry Sass), Power Lunches, lectures, co-wrote an Open Letter on Representation in Reviews

PRESIDENT OF WOMEN IN ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN, WASHU / 2015-2018
organized a Q&A with Maya Lin, designed a Bias + Diversity Survey for the Sam Fox School, planned firm visits to Chicago and New York City and reorganized the structure of the organization to take on more of an advocacy platform and increase student involvement.


PERFORMANCE performed for the video installation work ‘Two Laments (19 Cantos)’ by WashU faculty member and performance artist Monika Weiss.

WashU Dance Theatre 2014 & 2015 - performed Antony Tudor’s Fandango as staged by ABT dancers Amanda McKerrow and John Gardner, among other pieces.


LANGUAGES


ENGLISH native language
GERMAN conversational and professional proficiency (B2/C1)


SOFTWARE


ADOBE SUITE, RHINOCEROS 3D, QGIS, GRASSHOPPER, VRAY, HAND DRAWING, MODELING

Mark