My passion is inseparable from what I have lived. I spent years misdiagnosed, learning firsthand how systems fail to recognize complexity. I raise daughters with autism and ADHD, each with their own rhythms of thought and feeling, and I cared for my father in his final years as dementia slowly took away the clarity of the man who had been my anchor. In his last days, I watched how misunderstanding added unnecessary suffering. These experiences revealed a truth that continues to guide me: we cannot afford systems that silence, misname, or fail to see the full human story.

I believe in making the unseen visible. Through metaphor, we can map the storms and currents of emotion. Through research, we can design instruments that honor complexity rather than erase it. Through AI, we can help speak what is often unspoken. We can give voice to those who have been silenced by misunderstanding, by stigma, or by systems too narrow to hold them. I seek to build structures that are as ethical as they are imaginative and frameworks that allow people not just to be studied, but to be heard, remembered, and carried with dignity.