ABOUT ME

I am a fourth-year MS/Ph.D. student studying Human Resources at Cornell University’s ILR School. I am also a fellow at Cornell’s Ithaca Co-Lab. From an aerial view, my research interests include compensation, employee turnover, and inequality. More specifically, I studied the effect of COVID-19 mask mandates on frontline worker turnover for my Master’s thesis. For my dissertation, I hope to better understand how workers react to changes in pay dispersion within firms, to study how and why firms respond to these reactions, and finally to uncover the consequences of these responses for both firm and broader societal inequality.

I was born and raised near Niagara Falls on the Canadian side of the border (from my biased perspective, the side with the better view) and then moved to Vancouver to complete my undergraduate degree at the University of British Columbia in International Economics. I spent some time working in student housing as a resident coordinator and then as a technical recruiter before switching gears to step into the life of an academic.

Outside of research, I volunteer as an EMT at the Varna Volunteer Fire Department, serve beers at the graduate bar on campus, and perform standup comedy. I also love partaking in my hobbies of photography and videography when I have the time.