About me

I've lived many lives! At Anthropic, I lead our research partnerships with the world's wisdom traditions, where I convene experts from across traditions and disciplines to help inform the moral formation of AI systems.

Early hardship sent me seeking for answers from a very young age. That search led me through many experiences and many traditions before finally finding my home in deep contemplative practice, shaped by Ignatian spirituality and its intersection with attachment psychology. After studying cognitive neuroscience at UC Berkeley, 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 dissertation at Trinity College Dublin, Soteriology of Secure Attachment, examines theologically how we are formed and transformed by who and what we attach to. It's a thesis I've lived in my own healing from complex trauma, and one that continues to shape my interest in moral traditions, in wisdom and flourishing, and in the question of what AI is to become in our world.