I’m a senior at Archbishop Mitty High School exploring AI safety through the belief that making interpretable and aligned systems requires both deep technical work and deliberate preparation of the institutions and communities that will live with them. My research focuses on model transparency and explainability through red-teaming and failure mode analysis; my community work spans district-level AI policy advising and 400+ student workshops across the Bay Area.

Competing in Lincoln-Douglas Debate, in which I’m ranked 2nd place speaker nationally, has sharpened how I reason about the ethical dimensions of these problems, and reinforced my belief that AI alignment is ultimately as much a societal challenge as a technical one.