I have a background in biodiversity data analytics and environmental remote sensing. I graduated from Brown University with a Bachelor's in Geobiology where I explored topics from atmospheric energetics to biogeochemistry to landcover remote sensing. After graduating, I did a term with the NASA DEVELOP program at the JPL node where my team and I worked with partners in Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala to develop a methodology for below-canopy forest inundation mapping using multispectral and synthetic aperture radar remote sensing products.

I joined the BGC Center as a postgraduate associate on the Map of Life informatics team. In this first year, I worked primarily in ArcGIS, Python, and Javascript to develop geospatial analysis tools and workflows and design web tools. I then took a position as the Center's Science Communication Specialist to focus more broadly on connecting the data and tools developed through the BGC Center to end users and the broader public. This work has involved the creation of multi-media communication materials including written pieces, videos, graphics, informational guides, and product prototypes to increase outreach, engagement, and accessibility around the science and conservation products developed by the Center. I'm particularly passionate about bridging scientific rigorously conservation data and tools to support conservation decision making to practitioners, managers, and other on-the-ground end users. I’m also interested in thinking about how human societies relate to nature and how conservation efforts can (and always should) actively involve human dimensions and environmental justice values.

I have co-authored articles for Esri's ArcNews newsletter and Google Earth's blog, and some of my articles written for the BGC Center website have been featured in Yale News.

Hiking, Reading, Foraging, Yoga, Cooking, Art, Playing with my cats