I started in Rome. Not as a tourist — I went to university there and ended up staying for fifteen years. My first real job in admissions was at The American University of Rome, helping students figure out whether studying abroad was the right move. It was my first real window into what it looks like to help students find the right fit across borders and cultures, and I loved it.

From there, things moved. An MA in Government and Politics. A move to Honolulu, where I earned my MEd and worked as an Assistant Director of Admissions at Hawaiʻi Pacific University. Then Massachusetts, where I've been since 2022. Each place taught me something different about what students need and what families are really asking when they say they want help with college.

I've sat on both sides of the table. I've reviewed applications as a seasonal admissions reader at universities across the country, and I still do. That matters to me — I'm not working from a playbook that's five years old. I hold teaching licenses in Hawaiʻi and Massachusetts, spent time in the classroom, completed a professional certificate in College and Career Counseling from UC Berkeley in 2023, and I'm currently pursuing my doctorate in Educational Psychology at American International College. I'm a member of HECA, the Higher Education Consultants Association.

Since 2022, I've served as a college counselor at a private boarding school in Massachusetts, working with juniors and seniors — many with learning differences and executive functioning challenges — through every stage of the college process. They're capable students who've often spent most of high school being underestimated. Getting to be part of what comes next for them is the work I care most about.

Outside of Kismet, I volunteer as a scholarship reader for CollegeBound Foundation and serve on the Admissions and Enrollment Committee at The Hartsbrook School. Each year I take on one or two pro bono clients as well — because I believe that every student deserves honest, experienced guidance, regardless of what their family can afford.

I named the practice Kismet on purpose. Fate — the sense that something was always meant to be. That's genuinely how I think about the college search. There is a right place for every student, and when they find it, it clicks. My job is to do the careful, honest work that makes that possible.