User Portlet

Acadia is interested in why people make the decisions they do, and what formal reasoning, game theory, and good design could do to help them make better ones. She studies Latin and traditional logic, finding that both sharpen the same underlying skill: recognizing when an argument actually holds. She hosts Paths of Curiosity, a podcast and educational platform evaluating careers through the lens of AI (pathsofcuriosity.com), where her guests have included researchers and practitioners from UCSF, Carnegie Mellon, the ACLU, Wharton, and Brookings Institution, spanning AI in medicine, civil rights, and human decision-making. Her research background includes original microplastics work in Lake Tahoe, presented at national scientific conferences including the American Public Health Association and Ecological Society of America meetings. She rows with her crew team and plays chess competitively, drawn to both for what they reveal about coordination, strategy, and performing under pressure. She holds avalanche safety certifications, which she thinks of as applied decision theory under real consequences, has studied classical piano since she was five, and enjoys hiking and backpacking with her two dogs in the mountains.