Ari graduated from NC State in 2024 with a B.A. in psychology and minors in philosophy, cognitive science, and dance. She spent two years working as a research assistant with a focus on ethics of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and serves as an editorial intern for the American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience. She has also volunteered as a crisis counselor with Crisis Text line since 2021, which sparked her interest in crisis intervention and providing empathetic mental health care to those in need.

Ari is enthusiastic about providing empowering mental health care to teens and young adults, particularly through teaching dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills, and is interested in the application of creative therapies, such as dance movement therapy (DMT). She hopes to pursue a Ph.D. in clinical psychology with an interdisciplinary research focus on personality disorders and the development of novel personality assessments at the intersection of psychology and philosophy. In her free time, Ari enjoys writing, dancing, and spending time with friends.