I graduated Summa Cum Laude from Winona State University in 2021 with my Bachelor’s in Psychology and Communication Studies. Throughout my time there I was involved with and ran multiple research studies in both the Psychology and Communication Studies department, which I will link below. I was a member of the National Society for Collegiate Scholars, Her Campus, and received a fellowship with SAI to study abroad in Florence, Italy in the spring of 2020 (yep, I got sent home.)

As a teenager, I started doing some inflective writing to process the things I had been through. I joined our high school’s newspaper club, and though it was good practice to publish my writing publicly, I quickly learned that wasn’t the type of writing I cared to do. When I got to college I wrote and published articles for Her Campus and leaned into my passion for writing. I found sharing my thoughts exhilarating and freeing. I learned that I’m comfortable sharing some more intimate details about my life and that the people who read my articles responded well to that. Whenever someone reached out to tell me one of my articles really spoke to them, I thought,

maybe this is what I’m supposed to do.

I knew I wanted to create my own space to share my writing, but because I used to commit to soooo many things, I was always too busy in college to put the time into it that I would want to (I don’t half-ass things.) Once I graduated and jumped into the world of solo traveling and starting my adult life, I knew it was time. Currently I do some project-based work for a nonprofit organization called 100 Rural Women, where I started as an intern in university. I have done a bit of social media work as well. I am passionate about social change and making people feel safe, valued, and cared about.