My desire to understand goodness and be good to others has always motivated my educational, vocational, and personal pursuits. I am a recent honors graduate at UW-Madison with degrees in both English Literature and Philosophy (BS) with a certificate in Leadership. At UW-Madison, I acted as the co-editor in Chief of the Madison Journal of Literary Criticism, an abolitionist study group and international publication. I worked as a fellow for the Alpha Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa and as a Campus Information Guide while also serving as the undergraduate representative for the UW English Department's Literary Steering Committee. Additionally, my entire four years at Madison have been marked by my research with Professor Ingrid Diran and peer Anna Nelson, studying the Carceral State and its effects on social systems. On top of this research, I recently completed my individual honors thesis on angst in the coming of age novel, a project facilitated by Professor Mario Ortiz-Robles. My time at Madison has been incredibly immersive. With prior extracurricular involvement in Greek life, serving as the treasurer of the debate team (WSDS), acting as co-president for our mental health advocacy chapter of Active Minds, and serving as an active community member and writer at WSUM 91.7. Primarily, a lot of my free time goes towards creative writing, with many of my poems, short stories, and essays recently featured in a variety of literary journals and small press anthologies. I've worked a range of campus jobs tied to my interests: A Teaching Fellow (TA) for an introductory freshman seminar, a peer advisor for Student Orientation, Advising, and Registration, and as the Traffic Director at WSUM. I've been lucky enough to have been selected as a Global Gateway Scholar examining Race and Politics in Washington DC for one summer and to have interned in Dublin, Ireland for arts organization PhotoIreland. All my classes, jobs, and extracurricular experiences are deeply structured in learning through both conversation and collaboration. I am passionate in the belief that goodness can be found through working with and caring for others. These next few years, I hope to be allowed the opportunity to both explore and work more with my many passions in the form of internships, research, jobs, conferences, assignments, and volunteer experiences.