Philanthropy
I care about closing the gender gap in health and improving quality of life, especially for women. I want to help turn unanswered questions into better research, useful tools, and more accessible care. Alongside that work, I mentor founders, support financial education, and bring people together to build.
Mentorship and residencies
Innovator in Residence
USC Viterbi Startup Garage
As Innovator in Residence at USC Viterbi Startup Garage in Spring 2024, I worked with student founders on product, early traction, and building technology from zero. I also interviewed students for the Summer Smasher cohort.
USC Viterbi Startup GarageMentor
FoundersBoost LA
Mentor for the FoundersBoost LA Fall 2021 program, giving early founders practical feedback on pitch decks, business models, and finding their first market.
FoundersBoostFinancial access
The Redvest Financial Literacy Foundation supports practical financial education. Five percent of proceeds from my consultation calls are donated to the initiative.
Women who build
Mentoring, speaking, and showing the work so the next generation sees technical entrepreneurship as something they can do.
Women in Tech finalistHackathon judging
Reviewing ambitious ideas, working demos, product thinking, and technical execution across San Francisco's builder community.
Judge · AI agents, working prototypes, and human–AI founding teams · Santa Clara
Details July 13, 2026Judge · AWS Builder Loft · San Francisco
Details June 28, 2026Judge · Bay Forge · 429 builders · San Francisco
Details April and May 2025Judge · Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies · Los Angeles
DetailsSpeaking and panels
Guest speaker · Alumni sharing session, "What's next after Founder Catalyst" · virtual
Details October 2024Pitched Redvest on stage · Startup Battlefield 200 · San Francisco
Details April 11, 2024Panelist · "The Voice of the Founder" · USC Stevens Center for Innovation, Los Angeles
Details Date to confirmGuest lecturer · ideation, product development, scaling, and venture funding · Loyola Marymount University
DetailsCauses I care about
My focus is on the research, information, and care that can make everyday life better. That includes women's health, mental health, and shared responsibility for sexual health.
I want to help close gaps in how women's physical and mental health are studied, diagnosed, and treated. The goal is better quality of life: symptoms taken seriously, clearer answers, and care people can actually access.
I want to combine brain imaging, mathematical matrices, and AI tools to simulate how biological systems change. One research direction is AI simulation based mental health diagnostics. Another is women's health. The aim is to test hypotheses and work toward better answers, with clinical validation built into the research.
Read the idea and the sciencePeople should be able to examine the quality of the evidence behind a claim. MedLit helps readers assess a paper's methods, risk of bias, and reporting, with its judgments linked to passages in the source.
Explore MedLitSynaptik explores research informed practice games for attention, emotional regulation, and everyday mental wellbeing. It is a place to try these ideas through interaction, with clear limits on what the games can measure.
Explore SynaptikProjects for good
Appraises scientific papers with study-design-specific questions, supporting source passages, and explicit uncertainty. Its score describes appraisal traceability, not whether a paper is true. Connect your own AI provider, or explore the example without an account.
Short practice games for symptoms people actually live with: attention, impulse control, rumination, anxiety, and mood. Each game follows a named protocol, records only what it can honestly measure, and never punishes you for stopping.
Hackathon in the making
The Virtual Lab Hackathon is taking shape in San Francisco. I am inviting organizations, universities, and labs to help bring researchers and builders together, contribute resources, and turn ambitious ideas into working prototypes.
Bring funding, tools, expertise, or a challenge worth solving. Let's shape a role that makes sense for your organization and the teams participating.
A place for your organization
Proposed placements include the event page, demo presentations, and event recaps.
Explore hosting a challenge, offering a workshop, or contributing mentors and judges.
Join demos and conversations with participating researchers and builders, with follow up introductions by mutual agreement.
Previous research, mentorship, and speaking. Hackathon partnerships will be announced separately.
For hackathon judging, panels, mentorship programs, women's health projects, or any philanthropy collaboration, send a note with the date and what you have in mind.
