I recently graduated from University of North Carolina Wilmington with my Bachelor in Marine Biology and Conservation. I completed undergraduate honors research in the Submerged Aquatic Vegetation (SAV) Lab where I studied different seagrass species in NC.

Currently, I am a graduate student in the Freestone Lab at Temple University and a research student at Ambler Field Station.

As a marine invasions ecologist, I am interested in invasion ecology along nearshore marine fouling communities where native and nonnative prey vary across a latitudinal gradient.