About

I’m the Founder and CEO of Hubble Financial, powered by Aurora Intelligence and backed by Columbia University, an AI-driven platform that transforms complex open data into compliance and decision support tools for financial services. Where others focus on closed or fragmented systems, we’re innovating at the model and architecture layer to maximize efficiency, accuracy, and results. If you’re interested in building with us, connect with me.

Founder Story

My path to building started early. As a child, I trained as a classical pianist to compete at the Peabody Institute and later won my school science fair by showing how music influences the growth of plants. That early curiosity for patterns and performance evolved into a career focused on translating creativity and data into systems that drive measurable impact.

I began my career on Broadway and National Tour in Tony Award winning productions and later performed at Carnegie Hall. Performing at this level taught me resilience, creativity, and the ability to deliver under pressure, qualities that shaped how I approach leadership and innovation today. At the White House for the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities, I helped design research frameworks measuring the impact of incorporating arts education into STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) curriculum. The result was significant: schools in the Turnaround Arts Initiative saw math proficiency rise by 23 percent and reading proficiency by 17 percent over four years, evidence of how data can drive measurable change.

My passion for data and research led me to my dream role on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Mission Team. I pursued it relentlessly, applying to numerous roles and visiting the telescope in person six times before finally being selected. I was first invited to NASA to present It’s Not Rocket Science, a talk comparing the launch of a Broadway show to a spacecraft rocket launch, which later led to my role on the team. At NASA, I contributed to the Mission Design Lab, observed astronaut training at the Neutral Buoyancy Lab, gained experience in the plenum below Chamber A during underground control testing, and communicated the Telescope’s technology and data to the public at the Super Bowl.

Later, at NASA’s International Space Apps Challenge, the world’s largest hackathon, I led Team Artemis to two consecutive first place wins developing solutions leveraging AI and open data. It was there that I connected with NASA’s Head of Data and launched what would become Hubble Financial. Offered a NASA-funded scholarship to pursue a master’s in engineering at NYU, I chose instead to take the entrepreneurial leap and fully dedicate myself to building Hubble Financial. Today, as Founder and CEO of Hubble Financial, I am building an AI-driven solution in collaboration with Columbia University that transforms complex open data into clarity and decisive action for financial services.

Side Projects

• Team Artemis: Built and led hackathon team for competing in the NASA Space Apps Challenge (2020, 2021, 2022)

• Spacetune: Built an AI-powered app that transforms Webb and Hubble Space Telescope data into music and interactive visualizations

• DELOS: Developed a hackathon-winning prototype that consolidated critical data to advance lunar exploration for NASA’s Artemis Mission

• DC NASA Space Apps, Seasonal Director: Helped lead the world’s largest open data and AI hackathon in Washington, D.C.

• Broadway Space Project: Created a side initiative that uses music inspired by the Hubble Space Telescope and theatre performance to teach coding to displaced Rohingya children

• AAUW: Selected researcher and co-author for the Association of American University Women’s “Major Issues, Major Impact Research Project”

Awards

• NASA Technology & Innovation Award, Goddard Space Flight Center

• 1st Place, NASA Space Apps Challenge (Team Artemis, 2022)

• 1st Place, NASA Space Apps Challenge (Team Artemis, 2021)

• Special Recognition, NASA Space Apps Global COVID-19 Challenge (2020)

• Finalist, Voices That Give Talent Competition (2020) funding the Broadway Space Project

• Scholar of the Arts Award