Work Experience
Biology lecturer: Winter 2025
Taught Biology 101 at Schoolcraft college
Graduate Student Research Assistant Community Outreach Garden: Summers 2023 and 2024
Planned, designed exhibition plaques, collected data on museum visitors for later NSF EDGE grant presentation.
Graduate Student Teaching Assistant: 2022-2024
Designed new Writing Intensive Superfund Site grant writing assignment and lesson plans to include active learning about science communication for EEB 372 students.
Baucom Lab: Laboratory Technician: 2019-2022
Data collection, lab management and project management for plant evolutionary ecology research projects.
Conservation Land Management Internship: June-November 2018
Seeds of Success Collection for the partnership between the Bureau of Land Management and Chicago Botanical Gardens.
Paleobotany Researcher: Summer 2017
Collaborated with Dr. Regan Dunn to carry out a study on the reconstruction of a paleo-forest canopy—fossil collection and make educational content for museum guests as a part of the Research Experience for Undergraduates program at The Field Museum.
Maricopa County Department of Public Health Office of Epidemiology Internship: Summer 2016
Assisted with preparation for a pilot study to bring air conditioning to homebound seniors and prepared communication materials on climate change and public health.
Oberlin College Workshops and Learning Sessions: 2015-2018
Taught intro biology workshops to undergraduate students and tutored in neuroscience and chemistry.
The Synapse: Oberlin College Intercollegiate Science Magazine Content Editor: 2015-2018
Collaborated with student writers to craft science interest stories.
Undergraduate Researcher: 2016-2018
Worked in 3 research labs at Oberlin College. Studied lateral root formation in the Laskowski Lab, squirrel attention to bird alarm calls in the Tarvin lab, and mosquito feeding preference in the Garvin lab.
Volunteer Work
City of Farmington Beautification Committee: January 2024-
Vice Chairperson of the Farmington Beautification committee. Leading projects related to trash collection and beautifying the city.
PAAW (Pet Adoption Alternative of Warren): January 2025-
Assist with cat care at “Avocato” Cat Cafe and Adoption Center
Friends of the Rouge: Winter and Spring Bug Hunts: 2024-
Macroinvertebrate collection for the Rouge River watershed.
BI/O: Science Outreach Organization for Parnell Correctional Facility: May 2023-August 2024
Organizational board member to bring scientific research talks from University of Michigan scientists into prisons to educate the population about ecology and evolutionary biology.
America Reads: Fall 2014- May 2016
Tutored children in reading, assisted with third grade pullout enrichment in science in Oberlin, OH.
Education
University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, MS (2024)
Thesis: The evolutionary and ecological consequences of herbicide drift for a dicamba tolerant species. Defended August 9, 2024
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