I received my Bachelor of Music in Professional Performance from Berklee College of Music in 2012 and Master of Arts in German Studies from California State University, Long Beach in 2015 and joined the German Graduate program at Vanderbilt University in 2016 followed by the Comparative Media Analysis and Practice (CMAP) dual PhD program in 2017. My experience in programming was relatively novice until working with a Python working group for the past academic year and participated in a seminar on working with data predominantly utilizing R. I am here on Stack to become more connected to the programming community as I begin to dive deeper into programming. ©