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I am a privacy engineer, researcher, and advocate. Currently, I work as a Privacy Engineer at Apple, where I partner with teams to ensure that features, hardware, and architecture meet technical privacy standards. I finished my Ph.D. in Information Science from CU Boulder in 2023, where I worked with young people to learn how they understand privacy. I was advised by Ricarose Roque, a member of the Creative Communities Research Group, and worked with Ben Shapiro.

As an evaluator with Common Sense Media’s Privacy Program, I audited popular technologies according to technical and legal standards. Previously, I earned my B.S. in Management Information Systems from the Department of Information Systems, Statistics and Management Science at the University of Alabama.