I am an assistant professor in the Physics & Astronomy department and an Associate Research Scientist in the Center for Computational Astrophysics at the Flatiron Institute in Manhattan. My research focuses on ways to infer the dark matter distribution in galaxies by studying the orbits of their stars. I completed my Ph.D. in Physics at MIT in 2011, spent three years as a postdoc at the Kapteyn Institute in the Netherlands, and held an NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship at Columbia, NYU, and then Caltech before joining UPenn and Flatiron.