I am currently attending Harvard Business School, for my MBA.
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Originally from Portland, Oregon, I now live in the Rittenhouse Square neighborhood of Philadelphia.
I graduated cum laude, and with distinction, from the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, with a Bachelor of Arts in an individualized health policy and bioethics concentration.
I founded the peer-reviewed Penn Bioethics Journal and won national awards as a leader of the Penn Mock Trial team.
Starting in 2006, I served a variety of roles at Reflective Learning (now closed), including Vice President: Marketing and Business Development.
As part of my work at Reflective Learning, I founded happier.com with colleague Doug Hensch. We raised money from our existing investors to build a “personal trainer for your happiness” which had over 50,000 registered users, with consumer revenue growing at 20% monthly. I sold and implemented business solutions as well, working with Fortune-500 companies including Google and BP, and major institutions including the Wharton School and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
I represented the company at over 15 events and worked directly with our Board of Directors. I led business research and development efforts in China, Switzerland, Australia and the United States. happier.com was featured in hundreds of magazines, newspapers, tv shows and other media outlets. Major placements included the New York Times and CNN.
Concurrently, I have worked as a Project Coordinator at the University of Pennsylvania Positive Psychology Center. The Positive Psychology center is directed by Martin E.P. Seligman, Ph.D., the Zellerbach Family Professor of Psychology. I managed a research team measuring optimism in the 2008 presidential elections, and our work was featured in The New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle. Since 2006, I’ve given an invited talk each year in the Masters of Applied Positive Psychology program. And in 2006, the Vice Provost for Research appointed me to a 3-year term as a reviewer for one of the University’s high-risk Institutional Review Boards. I was re-appointed for 2009-2012.
I am active in the community and serve on a number of boards.