As a kid, I always enjoyed visiting museums of all kinds, finding them to be the perfect combination of information, luxury, and comfort. Whether a new science exhibit or temporary art collection, trips to museums were always afternoons well spent. In college, I began thinking critically about museums and curatorial processes, and their intersections with time, space, society, and politics, in a course on Andean and Amazonian art and aesthetics. This led me to work with the AAAC as a student curator.

To this day, I pay particular attention to the ways in which exhibits are presented and interacted with, and how curatorial decisions reflect the values and missions of museums and museum-like institutions. I feel very strongly about the facilitation of multisensory interactions with exhibit pieces, and in cases where it is difficult to achieve, seek to understand how barriers can be overcome through ethical and practical means.