If you can age here,
you can age anywhere.

I grew up at the base of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where I learned early that the body is capable of remarkable things. As an elite athlete competing in triathlon and track, I developed a deep respect for human performance and what it takes to sustain it over time. That curiosity about the body led me to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, where I studied Kinesiology and Public Health and began to understand health not just as an individual pursuit, but as something shaped by environment, community, and circumstance.

I went on to earn my Doctor of Occupational Therapy at the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences, graduating Magna Cum Laude and as a member of Pi Theta Epsilon, the occupational therapy honor society. I then became the founding occupational therapist at Mirabella at ASU, the world's first university-based senior living high-rise, where I built the OT program from the ground up for a community redefining what luxury aging in place could look like.

Then I moved to New York City, and everything I knew about aging got tested all over again. Over three years at Spear Physical & Occupational Therapy, one of the nation's most respected rehabilitation practices, I sharpened my clinical skills in a fast-paced, high-volume environment that made me a better and more decisive clinician — including more than a decade of specialized focus in upper extremity rehabilitation. It was home health that taught me something different entirely — years of working inside people's homes across Manhattan showed me firsthand how the city's environments, the buildings, the layouts, the staircases, shape how people age and what they need to stay independent.

I founded Urban Aging because I believe New Yorkers deserve occupational therapy that actually meets them where they live. Not a generic program. A practice built specifically for the complexity, pace, and demands of life in this city.