I’m a current MSc student rolling up to a Ph.D. under the supervision of Dr. Mitch Weegman at the University of Sasketchewan in Saskatoon, SK, Canada. I’m studying Eastern mallard population and behavioral ecology.

Mentorship is a HUGE passion of mine. I want to use what I’ve learned and give that knowledge to people. In high school, I was a mentor to freshmen girls my junior and senior year through the Freshmen Mentorship Program. For three semesters, I was a chemistry SI at Miami University where I helped students review concepts they had learned in class. To this day I still tutor high school and college chemistry.

I graduated from Miami University in Oxford, OH with a Bachelors of Science in Zoology, a Bachelors of Arts in Spanish, a co-major in Neuroscience, and a minor in Statistical Methods. I worked with Dr. Paul Schaeffer in the Physiological Ecology Laboratory since freshman year, studying box turtle personality. I have also assisted graduate students in the lab completing folch assays, glycerol assays, animal surgeries/care, and mist-netting.

After I complete my Ph.D., I’ll start looking for Post-Docs in an area of interest (what is that? Not sure yet! Something to do with birds though). My goal is to then become a research scientist and work in a government based position.