I am a conservation scientist and tropical ecologist working primarily in African ecosystems. I am currently a 2024-2027 Postdoctoral Research Associate at the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University, where I am exploring how elephants impact carbon storage across Congo Basin forests, and the implications for conservation finance mechanisms. I also lead a variety of collaborative biodiveristy monitoring projects with external partners.

Previously, I was a 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 partner with many wonderful organizations to conduct capacity building and outreach through my work. My Fulbright 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 projects 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.

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