CV
- Ph.D. in Astronomy & Astrophysics, Harvard University, 2021
- M.A. in Astronomy & Astrophysics, Harvard University, 2018
- B.A. in Physics & Astronomy, CUNY Hunter College, 2016
- 2015- : National Geographic Young Explorers Grant
- 2017-2020: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
- 2017: John P. and Carol J. Merrill Graduate Fellowship, Harvard University
- 2016: Judith and Stanley Zabar Graduate Scholarship, Hunter College
- 2014-2016: John P. McNulty Scholarship, Hunter College
- 2012-2016: CUNY Macaulay Honors College full merit scholarship, Hunter College
- 2021: Rodger Doxsey Travel Prize, AAS 237th Meeting
- 2020: Keck Principal Investigator Data Award, NExSci for NASA
- 2019: Nominated as one of the 40 Women to Watch in 2019, The Tempest
- 2017, 2018: Derek Bok Center Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University
- Awarded for teaching SPU 30 (Life as a Planetary Phenomenon), Spring 2017
- Awarded for teaching AY 16 (Stellar & Planetary Astronomy), Spring 2018
- 2017: Best Poster Award, IAC Winter School of Radiative Transfer in Stellar & Planetary Atmospheres
- 2016: Joseph A. Gillet Memorial Prize, Hunter College
- Award Citation: “awarded to a member of the senior class who has, in the opinion of the department, the most thorough knowledge of general physics”
- 2016: Rosalyn S. Yalow Award, Hunter College
- Award Citation: “presented to one of Hunter’s finest science students"

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