My path to medicine was anything but linear — and I wouldn't have it any other way. I grew up steeped in the kind of Italian-New York energy that makes you loud about the things that matter and stubbornly unimpressed by systems that don't serve people well. I studied Italian at Brown University (yes, including a glorious year in Bologna where I perfected the art of the long lunch), then pivoted to teaching — fifth grade in New York City, fourth grade in Suzhou, China — before landing in Colorado in 2009 and eventually finding my way back, again and again, to health, equity, and justice. I completed my Masters in Physician Assistant Studies at the University of Colorado in 2017 and spent seven years in primary care in Fort Collins with a deep focus on gender affirming care, LGBTQIA+ affirming care, and sexual and reproductive health before moving into adolescent medicine in Denver in 2024. The throughline in all of it? A fundamental belief that people deserve care that actually sees them — not a checklist, not a diagnosis code, not seven minutes and a referral.

Lupa Health was born from something I can only describe as a bone-deep impatience with the way healthcare so often fails the people who need it most. I am fiercely, unapologetically committed to LGBTQIA+ affirming care and social justice — not as a specialty or a tagline, but as the floor from which everything else is built. I hold space that is calm, honest, and a little bit funny, because I think vulnerability and dry wit can absolutely coexist in the same room. The she-wolf of Roman myth — lupa — is a creature of ferocity and fierce protection, and I feel that in my bones. I want to help you live your most authentic life, and I know that doesn't happen in a single fifteen-minute visit. It happens on a journey — yours, your family's, our community's — taken together, at a pace that actually makes room for the whole person. I cannot wait to go on that journey with you.