I currently serve as Navon Postdoctoral Fellow in Sephardic and Mizrahi Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at Florida International University’s Green School of International and Public Affairs (Miami). As part of my postdoctoral work, I am also the Curatorial and Public Programs Manager at the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU. I received my PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology from Cornell University in May 2025. In 2017 I completed my graduate certificate in Heritage Conservation and Historic Preservation at the University of Arizona’s College of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture. Before that, I received my Master of Arts in Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture from the Bard Graduate Center in 2015 and my Bachelor of Arts in Museum Anthropology and Art History from Sarah Lawrence College in 2012. I have worked in Indonesia, Senegal, and the United States in areas of arts education, exhibition design, and historic preservation. My doctoral research (2025) centered on critical heritage studies and Jewish memory work in Iberia, Sicily, and Israel-Palestine. Professional experience in museums and heritage institutions spans curatorial research, collections management, educational programming, and public outreach. I served as tribal repatriation consultant for Bernstein and Associates NAGPRA (2017-2018) and remain an active member the Board of Directors of the Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation (US/CA) since 2020.