I am a PhD candidate advised by Dr. Hannah Marx at Cornell University and the L.H. Bailey Hortorium Herbarium. I am broadly interested in exploring when, where, and how lineages adapt to novel environments (particularly the alpine and arctic) using museum collections, genomic data, and phylogenomic tools. I am especially excited about exploring these questions through Erigeron, a species-rich and charismatic genus of daisies that is well-represented in arctic and alpine (and many other!) habitats.

Previously, I was at the University of New Mexico and the Museum of Southwestern Biology. I earned my M.Ed. at UMass-Boston through the Boston Teacher Residency and taught 6th grade earth and space science in Olympia, WA. I earned my M.S. in plant sciences at Washington State University in the Roalson Lab and completed my B.A. at the University of Colorado in 2015 where I worked in the COLO herbarium and the Tripp Lab.