I am originally from New York City, but I was raised in Washington, DC. Thanks to tons of visits to natural history museums, I’ve had a long interest in paleontology. I am now a fourth-year Biology student at Florida A&M University, where I have also fallen in love with ecology and evolutionary biology. I got my first introduction to research with the Groundwater Biodiversity Lab, where I studied the evolution of amphipods in Florida caves. I have also had the opportunity to work with the Bell lab at the California Academy of Sciences, studying phylogeography in Caribbean Eleutherodactylus frogs. 

I began in the Kemp lab as an InSTInCT REU student, and now continue my work on ecomorphology in living and fossil Anolis from Jamaica. Currently, I am broadly interested in phylogenetics, biogeography, and morphology.

Outside of research, I also enjoy biking, roller skating, and being outside in nature.