Building things that change how people learn, work, and play.
Exit Glacier, Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska
I'm the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Grasshopper Kids — an education marketplace connecting K–8 schools with real professionals who teach their actual craft.
Before Grasshopper, I spent a decade at Google leading products across YouTube VR/AR, GCP, and early Android hardware. M.S. in Physics. Mom, wilderness lover, tennis player, artist.
Featured in Diversify: Female Founders in Focus at SFMOMA, May 2026.
Grasshopper Kids is the labor marketplace for independent teachers and rising school demand for specialty educators.
We connect K–8 schools with real professionals — chefs, musicians, engineers, filmmakers, park rangers, artists — who teach their actual craft as enrichment programming. Schools get a single partner that handles staffing, compliance, scheduling, and backfills. Currently partnered with hundreds of schools across the Bay Area and Denver, expanding to New York in 2026.
The platform is AI-native end to end: LLM-powered tooling built directly into production workflows, agentic systems handling educator onboarding, compliance, matching, scheduling, and lesson planning. About 90% of operations run without human intervention. Our product however, the in-person learning experience in the classroom, is all human and entirely screen-free.
Endorsing the bans but pivoting to the affirmative vision: redesigning schooling around human-led learning.
On the state-level device backlash and Stanford research finding zero causal studies of AI tools in US K-12 schools.
Breaking down the Section 230 legal theory and what it means for platform accountability.
Research-backed argument that 1:1 devices were adopted before the evidence supported them. I call for real scrutiny before repeating the same mistake.
Quit my PhD program when industry came calling, no regrets.
Directed Google's company-wide 20% Time program — evaluating and accelerating high-potential 0→1 projects.
Built Nexus Q and early Android devices from zero to launch. Six months in Tokyo as Chief of Staff to the EVP of Engineering.
Launched the Resource Manager API — the infrastructure layer that lets enterprise teams programmatically organize, govern, and control access to everything they run on GCP.
Led YouTube's first immersive VR/AR experiences — millions of users across Android, iOS, and Windows, and after, Meta Oculus headsets.
Hand-selected for a centralized team optimizing resource allocation and execution across all of Google.
Consumer marketplace sending specialty teachers — chefs, musicians, artists — directly to families' homes.
Pivoted from consumer to B2B schools. Zero to 100+ school partnerships and $1M+ ARR in two years.
Volunteer in the interpretation program at Muir Woods — inspired Rangers in the Classroom.
Personalized picture books for schools. Each book features a school's own mascot to help incoming TK/K students feel ready for their first day.
firstdaybooks.com →A drag-and-drop web tool for making vision boards — built for fun, made public. Fast, visual, no account required.
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Claude Code · GPT-5 · Gemini · Agentic AI Systems · LLM-powered automation
Speaker on a panel about art and technology at Art Silicon Valley.
Curated rotating art shows in Google's Mountain View lobbies, giving Bay Area artists a platform inside one of the most-visited corporate campuses in the world.
One-night art exhibitions in converted, borrowed, and repurposed gallery spaces across San Francisco. By displaying art in non-traditional environments for a limited time, the pop-up shows challenged the viewing experience — pushing the interaction between art and viewer toward intimacy and spontaneity. Salon-style shows featuring local visual artists including Greg Hinkle, Jess Wainer, and Simon Pyle.
Summer residency at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York City.
Oil and mixed media from NYU (minor in Painting) and UC Davis.
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