Team Bio

I'm from San Diego, California and did my undergraduate studies at UC Berkeley. Currently, I live in New York City where I'm a Conservation Biology MA student at Columbia University. In my free time, I like to go running in Central Park in search of birds that aren't pigeons.

I am fascinated by connections between human, wildlife, and environmental health. My background has included research in genetics, ecology, and wildlife disease. I also have previous experience in wildlife veterinary care and youth science outreach.

In the future, I plan to continue my research on bat immune genetics and disease ecology in the context of a doctorate program. Eventually, I want to expand this project to include fieldwork so that I can obtain samples for more bat species. All samples will be collected using minimally invasive techniques.

I hope to focus in particular on the importance of conservation and habitat protection as methods of preventing the future emergence of novel pathogens from wildlife.