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These days, my work is divided between freelance writing and doing ethics consulting for corporate clients. My writing covers a wide variety of topics related to technology, health, and leadership. I specialize in ghostwriting thought leadership pieces, whitepapers, and ebooks for health and technology companies and C-suite professionals.

My main goal is to bring a better and more useful understanding of science, technology, and medicine to non-experts. With everything going on in the world and the pace of both research and the news cycle, it’s hard for people to feel like they have a good grasp on what these new tools do and what’s at stake if we blindly accept them without asking questions.

I am a former Innovation contributor specializing in tech ethics for Forbes.com. In addition, my byline has appeared in Huff Post, Aeon Magazine, The Daily Beast, and Spirituality & Health. My work has been featured in international publications such as Época.

My degrees include a B.A. in Medical Anthropology, an interdisciplinary Master’s degree in Anthropology, History, and Classics from SUNY’s University at Buffalo, as well as a Ph.D. in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Notre Dame. I’ve won multiple grants for my research, worked in academia, taught undergraduates and graduate students, organized international conferences, and been the managing editor of a top-tier academic journal in the History and Philosophy of Science.

In 2016, I was named one of my region’s 40 Under 40 young professionals.

My education and work history:

EDUCATION

2013: Ph.D., History and Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame

Dissertation: “Reforming the Raj: Florence Nightingale’s biomedical liberalism in British India”
Exam fields: History of Medicine; Feminist Philosophy of Science; History of Modern Science and Technology; History of Modern India; European Political Ideologies

2004: M.A.H., Humanities Interdisciplinary, SUNY at Buffalo

Fields: Classics, Anthropology, History

2002: B.A., with honors, Medical Anthropology, SUNY at Buffalo             

CUrrent position

2018 - present: President, Arista Consulting, LLC

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

2011–2018: Outreach and Communications Coordinator, University of Notre Dame’s Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values

2013–2018: Director of Media and Engagement, History of Science Society

2013–2018: Concurrent Assistant Professor of History and First-Year Studies Program, University of Notre Dame

2011–2013: Managing Editor, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Concurrent Assistant Professor in Science, Technology, and Values Program and Department of History, University of Notre Dame (2013 - 2018)

  • Science, Ethics, and Responsibility Pre-College Leadership Seminar

  • Social Responsibilities of Researchers CCE-STEM Seminar for graduate students

  • History of Medicine and Public Health in the U.S. (HIST 30626)

  • Man and Machine: Humanity, Ethics, and Future Technology (STV 20089)

Adjunct Lecturer, Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Indiana (2010-2011)

  • The History of Women in Science and Medicine (HIST 425)

  • Topics in Women’s History: Women in the British Empire (HIST 410)

  • Modern European Women (HIST 370)

  • World Civilizations I (HIST 103)

Instructor, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana (2005)

  • Curie, Carson, and Franklin: Women and the Nature of Science (Master’s-level class for high school science teachers)

SERVICE AND LEADERSHIP

2017 – 2018 – Executive Committee and Committee on Prevention, Michiana Opioid Task Force; Faculty/Staff leader of the ND Student Opioid Task Force
2017 – Mentor, Notre Dame (NSF) Social Responsibilities of Researchers Program
2015 – 2018 – Representative from History of Science Society to the Consortium of Social Science Association’s (COSSA) Social Science Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill
2014 – 2018 – Co-director of HSS at Work caucus for academics working outside the tenure track
2013 – 2015 – Creator and Organizer, South Bend Science Café
2012 – 2018 – Member of the History of Science Society’s Committee on Education and Sub-Committee for Instructional Module
2009 – 2011 – Creator/Facilitator, Notre Dame Development Studies Working Group  
2007 – 2008 – Graduate Career Advisory Council, University of Notre Dame
2005 – 2007 – Executive Committee, HPS Summer School Committee for High School Science Teachers