Senate → Gates → Wall Street → AI
Zero to 98% voluntary AI adoption at a publicly traded investment bank. Now looking for what's next.
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Career Journey
Every chapter built the skills for what comes next.
United States Senate — Office of Senator Dean Heller
Pivotal Ventures
Geller & Company
Summit Trail Advisors
Perella Weinberg Partners
Perella Weinberg Partners
Sen. Dean Heller
Pivotal Ventures
Geller & Company
Summit Trail
Perella Weinberg
Perella Weinberg
Director of Scheduling & Operations
Executive Business Partner to Melinda French Gates
Business Ops & Strategy Manager / Chief of Staff
COO, NY Advisory & National Planning Team
Business Operations & Strategy Manager
Head of Innovation
About Me
I grew up in Reno, Nevada — one of five kids in a blended family, surrounded by the Sierra Nevada, Lake Tahoe, and the kind of outdoors that teaches you to figure things out on your own. I played volleyball for years — high school and a club team in Northern California — before trading the court for a work schedule that started at 15: first a paint-your-own pottery studio, then a preschool classroom to pay my way through college at UNR — where I majored in Political Science and minored in Cultural Anthropology — with a stint as a certified ski and snowboard technician up at Tahoe mixed in.
In college, I interned for a U.S. Senator while moonlighting as a paralegal and private bookkeeper for litigators and individuals navigating the healthcare system. I presented research on "The Effect of Institutional Characteristics of Public Support for National Legislatures" at the Western Political Science Association conference in Hollywood. I was also in a sorority. The range started early.
That through-line — learning fast, translating between worlds, doing the work nobody else wants to do — carried me from the Senate floor to Melinda French Gates' office to Wall Street to leading the AI transformation at a boutique investment bank. I'm a lifelong learner: every new chapter has been an excuse to go deep on something I didn't know yet, and that curiosity is what makes me good at what I do. What drives me isn't the technology itself. It's the moment someone goes from skeptical to "wait, this changes everything." I've watched that happen 730 times at Perella Weinberg, and it never gets old.
I may live in New York now, but the best parts of my week are spent in the parks with Farley, my 80-pound goldendoodle. When I'm not walking him, I'm reading, researching, spending time with friends, thinking about what the world will look like in five years, and browsing real estate upstate for a little country cottage with a bit of land.
"I build the bridge between what AI can do and what organizations will actually let it do."
What I Value
Say what you mean, share what you know, build trust by default. The best teams operate in the open.
Senate to Gates to Wall Street to AI — every chapter required learning fast and adapting faster. Change is the constant.
A lifelong learner who goes deep on what she doesn't know yet. The best ideas come from asking "why not?"
Do the right thing, especially when it's the hard thing. Trust is the foundation of everything that lasts.
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