Education

Current - Fashion Institute of Technology New York City, NY  Masters of Arts candidate, Fashion and Textile Studies: History, Theory, and Museum Practice, Anticipated graduation date 2027

2019-2023 - Wellesley College, Wellesley MA, Bachelor of Arts, Medieval and Renaissance Studies (major) Jewish Studies (minor)

Selected Written Work  

Un Bibelot Controversé: Guillotine Earrings, Victims’ Balls, and the Sartorial Mythology of the Reign of Terror. December, 2025

Fabricon: Invisible Reweaving and a Controversial Correspondence Course published by TATTER Blue Library, October 2025

Knitting for Relief published by TATTER Blue Library, February 2025

In Search of New Eden: Gender, Jewishness, and Eve Adams. May, 2023

Anorexia Mirabilis: Saint Catherine of Siena’s Divine Lack of Appetite August, 2023

Speaking Engagements 

“Distaff Day: Women’s Work and the Medieval Ecclesiastical Calendar” MAFA’s Distaff Day Celebration, January, 2026

Recognition and Awards

I will be presenting my paper “Un Bibelot Controversé” at the April 2026 NYU Tisch Graduate Studies Conference “Sprockets/Selvage/Shores” 

Erasmus Prize for best essay on a historical subject, (Satiated By Christ: Differentiating the Miraculous Lack of Appetite from Ascetic Fasting Practices in 12th-14th Century Saints), Wellesley College, May 2022

Experience 

TATTER BLUE ARCHIVES INSTITUTE, Brooklyn, NY, USA

Researcher in Residence September 2025-Present 10 hours/week

Content Coordinator June 2023-August 2025   40 hours/week

As the researcher in residence at the TATTER Blue Archives Institute, I have been

As a content creator, researcher, teacher, and product designer at the Tatter Blue Archives Institute, I was able to combine my love of history, teaching, writing, and textile creation to create knitted, crocheted, embroidered, sewn, woven, hooked, tatted, and appliquéd art. I also significantly grew the reach of the social media accounts through viral, creative projects reaching tens of thousands of viewers and both taught and assisted in teaching multiple popular classes across textile disciplines.  During this time, I liaised with external vendors to create kits, engaged with other museums and educators to build partnerships between institutions, interviewed teachers and lecturers for the blog, and collected materials from partners in order to create shared content. My work extended to creating marketing campaigns and following through with colleagues across the organization in order to facilitate smooth and prompt deadlines.

• Skills: SEM, campaign management, event organization and hosting, video production and editing, audio engineering, agency and relationship management, skilled workshop teaching and assistant teaching, social media managing and engagement expansion, copywriting, liaising with external vendors, creating and managing marketing plans, Zoom meeting leading and troubleshooting, using Adobe InDesign, cataloging archival materials (using Excel and Catalogit)

JEWISH TELEGRAPHIC AGENCY 

Research Intern virtual June 2021-December 2021 15 hours/week

As an intern for investigative Journalist Asaf Elia-Shalev at the Jewish Telegraphic Agency I created and researched databases, filed Freedom of Information Act requests, conducted interviews, wrote articles, and pitched stories.

My pieces were featured in the Jewish Telegraphic Agency as well as the Times of Jerusalem and The Forward (‘Ezra Furman has sung about God in her indie rock. Now she’s going to rabbinical school’ and ‘For Jews with Eating Disorders, New Traditions Aim to Make Yom Kippur a Safer Experience’) I was also credited for my research as a part of Asaf Elia-Shalev’s exposes ‘Michael Steinhardt’s looted Israeli antiquity came from the same caves his donations helped preserve’ and ‘Their fortunes come from oil. Here’s how these Jewish philanthropies deal with climate change.’ In 2023, JTA continued to publish stories featuring my contributions to research and reporting.

• Skills: filing FOIA requests, creating and updating databases, proficiency with Sheets, Excel, navigating non-profit organization databases (such as ProPublica), copywriting and copyediting, interview, transcription

THE CHILDREN OF HARVEY MILK BOOK TOUR 

Intern and Research Assistant Chapel Hill, NC April 2019-May 2020 20 hours/week

Andrew Reynolds and Chapel Hill Town Council Member Rachel Shaevitz hired me to do research and fact-checking in preparation for an academic project connected to his book The Children of Harvey Milk.  For this work I contacted potential collaborators and research institutions, conducted interviews, and acquired materials from libraries around the country. I also made use of social media, library archival material, and queer online archives to determine the identity of people mentioned in political speeches in San Francisco in the 1970s. I then contacted those people, and their relatives, for preliminary and follow-up interviews. 

• Skills: utilizing digital and physical databases for research, organizing the transportation of materials, copywriting and copyediting, interview and transcription