I am a Service Associate here at Gottesman Libraries. Though I am originally from Albany, I live here in the city because I am currently studying to get my master's degree in economics at The New School. Though I got my undergraduate degree in history, I find that the trajectory of history revolves primarily around economic conditions and therefore it is useful to study economics in order to examine the raw mechanisms that shape the past, present, and future. After reading Robert Heilbroner's famous work, The Worldly Philosophers, I knew that The New School, with its heterodox approach to the study of economics, was the place for me.

Before working here I had worked at plenty of other places, including a wine and liquor store, a Dunkin' Donuts, and Party City. None of those jobs compare to the work I do here. Both my fellow staff members and the patrons that regularly visit the library couldn't be nicer and I genuinely enjoy the work that I do.