About Me

I study how individuals navigate emotional experiences together in the workplace, with a focus on the following topics:

1. Empathy and Compassion: I examine how individuals responding to others’ suffering, the barriers to empathy and compassion, and how to cultivate positive empathy in the workplace.

2. Making Sense of Negative Events Together: I examine how individuals help others make sense of difficult emotions and negative events and how these interpersonal interactions shape connection, well-being, and creativity.

3. Embodied Experiences: I study the role of the physical body in individuals’ experiences at work, including physiological responses to work-related stress and the unique physical experiences of women at work, such as pregnancy.

My research has been published in Emotion and Affective Science, and presented through invited talks at the Wharton School and Columbia Business School. I have presented at selective conferences, such as the 2025 INFORMS Organization Science Winter Conference, and I was recognized with a Best Symposium Award at the 2024 Academy of Management Annual Meeting. I am a recipient of a two-year predoctoral fellowship from the T. Denny Sanford Institute for Empathy & Compassion and a funding award from the Long Family Foundation.