Sampling leaves from a liana in the forest in Gabon.

Joining the bird biodiversity team from CoEB during a field survey.

Master's student interns from the École Nationale des Eaux et Forêts in Gabon.

Participant photo from the Mouila Land-Use Dialogue in DRC, organized by the Forests Dialogue.

I am a tropical ecologist, and broadly interested in exploring how both natural and ecological disturbance and environmental changes can shape the diversity and dynamics of tropical ecosystems. I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University. 

Previously, I was a 2023-2024 Fulbright Scholar in Rwanda at the Center of Excellence in Biodiversity and Natural Resource Management (CoEB) at the University of Rwanda. I completed my Ph.D. in 2023 in the Comita & Queenborough lab groups at the Yale School of the Environment, where was a Cullman Fellow for the joint YSE-New York Botanical Garden program, and a National Science Foundation GRFP Fellow.

Throughout my career, I have been lucky to engage in outreach work with several wonderful organizations. My Fulbright Scholar award has allowed me to engage in capacity-building work with CoEB and provide training for Rwandan students, interns, staff, and researchers. With the Forests Dialogue, I helped to facilitate multi-stakeholder meetings to engage policy-makers and land managers in Gabon and DRC. With the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History in New Haven, I have worked as a volunteer docent, helped to develop curriculum for grade school programs, co-curated photo exhibitions, and hosted online webinars for the museum's public programs. 

Before graduate school, I worked on ecological and conservation-focused research in Central Africa, Central and South America, southwestern China, and Arizona and Ohio in the United States. I earned a B.S. in Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology from the Ohio State University in 2014. I studied botanical illustration prior to working in research & academia. Outside of work, you may find me out hiking, rock climbing, or trying out a new recipe. 

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