I am a PhD candidate advised by Dr. Hannah Marx at Cornell University and the L.H. Bailey Hortorium. My aim is to learn about the origins of alpine plants and the assembly of alpine plant communities using museum collections, genomic data, and phylogenomic tools. I am particularly excited about exploring these questions through Erigeron, a species-rich and charismatic genus of daisies that is well-represented in arctic and alpine 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.

View My CV here (updated May 2025).