I grew up in San Francisco, and moved from California to Ohio to attend Oberlin College as an undergraduate. After receiving a BA in History and a BM in Music Performance I took up a Fulbright fellowship Vienna, Austria, teaching English and working on a musicology research project examining how discourses of race and racism shaped the first decades of jazz reception in 1920s-1930s German-speaking Europe.

I spent the next several years working for an education non-profit organization back in San Francisco, helping to manage a program of free college advising services. I am excited to resume my studies through the Global History MA, and pursue interests in the nineteenth and twentieth century Black Atlantic, critical whiteness studies in a global context, and queer histories. These days, I often find myself fantasizing a post-corona return to live concerts and dancing, and seeking out as much genre-non-conforming listening as I can in the meantime.