About me

I've lived many lives. At Anthropic, I now lead our research partnerships with the world's wisdom traditions, convening theologians, contemplatives, ethicists, and psychologists across faiths and secular traditions to help inform the moral formation of AI systems.

Early trauma sent me seeking, young. That search led me through many experiences and many traditions — Taoist, Buddhist, and eventually the Abrahamic — before settling into deep formation in contemplative practice, specifically Ignatian spirituality and its intersection with attachment psychology. After studying cognitive neuroscience at Berkeley and Italian in Bologna, I entered tech, then left to train in spiritual direction and earn a graduate degree in theology, practicing art while living and studying alongside the Jesuits.

My MPhil thesis at Trinity College Dublin, Soteriology of Secure Attachment, examines how persons are transformed through secure attachment — to the divine and to each other. It's a thesis I've lived in my own healing from complex trauma, and one that now shapes my research on the formation of ethical AI.