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I grew up in central Iowa, surrounded by agricultural runoff and poor water quality, which pushed me to focus my research interests on the effects that excess nutrients can have on a system.  

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I graduated from Iowa State University in 2017 with a B.S. in Environmental Science with support from the Science Bound program. I attended the University of Toledo, OH for an REU in the summer of 2015. I worked to create a watershed model of the Maumee River to simulate the reduction of sediment into Lake Erie with the addition of carefully located wetlands. During my time at Iowa State I was apart of Sigma Lambda Beta International Fraternity Inc., a multicultural fraternity and focused on making underrepresented students lives easier on campus. I worked in Dr. Crumpton's wetland research lab as a lab/field/researcher for three years with the help of the McNair Scholar Program. For my senior project through McNair, I was also a part of a pilot study using LiDAR to identify the location of historic tile drainage lines, advised by Dr. David Green. 

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I completed an M.S. in Environmental Science under Dr. Wilkinson in 2019 comparing temporal and spatial indicators of regime shifts in Swan Lake. I became highly involved in SACNAS (Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Native Americans in Science). Helping undergraduates get involved in research on campus, around the world, into graduate school, and to present at national conferences. We also organized and established a scholarship for DACA students through an annual 5k run on campus. 

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I am currently living and working in Wisconsin working on my PHD research at UNDERC east and Trout Lake Station. I am continuing to compare and contrast temporal and spatial patterns of regime shifts, but now in experimentally manipulated systems. Now living in WI, I have been catching up on fishing and hiking that I was deprived of when I was in Iowa.