I am a scientist, environmental educator, and writer passionate about communicating how the world works. Currently, I teach Biological Writing at Northern Arizona University.

I received my Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Connecticut in the spring of 2016 and spent two years as a lecturer with the Princeton Writing Program, where I taught a writing seminar on Sensory Communication. After Princeton, I joined the nonprofit sector. I did environmental education outreach in K-12 classrooms, teaching kids about citizen science as the Program Coordinator of the Supporting Environmental Education and Communities (SEEC) Program, an offshoot of the Community and School Garden Program at the University of Arizona, and was Program Director of the Natural History Institute in Prescott, Arizona, where I used science, art, and the humanities to teach and engage the public in natural history.

My writing has appeared online on National Public Radio’s science blogs Shots, Goats and Soda, and The Salt. I also blog about the intersection between science and poetry at I Spell it Nature and, more recently, for ASU Center for Science and the Imagination’s blog Imaginary Papers. I have reviewed a book for Science, and have big plans to write one of my own.

In my free time, I can usually be found reading or hiking, or daydreaming about doing those things.