Appointments:

2022 – Present: Systems Manager of Strategic Planning and Assessment, Bryant & Stratton College

2021 – 2022: Senior Systems Analysist, Bryant & Stratton College

2019 – 2021 : National Science Foundation, Postdoctoral Fellow

2018 – 2019: University of Arizona, Classroom Observation Pilot Project

2018: University of Arizona, Science and Humanities Communication Fellowship

2018 – 2019: University of Arizona, Associate Graduate Council for the College of Science Outreach Coordinator

2017 – 2018: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Graduate Representative

2017 – 2018: Flowing Wells School District, Science Outreach Scholar

2015: University of Arizona, Biosphere 2 Haury Outreach Scholar

2014 – 2019: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Teaching Assistant

2012 – 2014: Department of Biology, Villanova University, Teaching Assistant

2010 – 2011: Centocor Ortho Biotech Inc., Chemist

Grants, Honors, Awards:

2019: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology (PRFB), National Science Foundation

2019: The College of Science Scholarship Award for the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department

2019: Galileo Circle Scholarship, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department, University of Arizona

2018: The College of Science Service Award for the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department

2016, 2018: Center for Insect Science Travel Award, University of Arizona

2016: Travel Award, The National Science Foundation

2016, 2017: ReaP Grant, Graduate and Professional Student Council, University of Arizona

2016: Environmental Graduate Student Travel Award, Institute for the Environment, University of Arizona, for summer fieldwork

2015: Galileo Circle Scholarship, Biosphere 2, University of Arizona

2015, 2018: Travel Award, Graduate and Professional Student Council, University of Arizona

2013: Travel Award, American Ornithologists’ Union

2013: The E. Alexander Bergstrom Memorial Research Award, Association of Field Ornithologists

2013, 2014: Travel Award, Wilson Ornithological Society

2012, 2013: Graduate Summer Research Fellowship, Villanova University

Teaching Experience:

2020 – Present: Skype a Scientist

2018 – 2019: Guest Lecturer for Ornithology

2017: Head Ecology Teaching Assistant

2014 – 2019: Teaching Assistant, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona

Classes: Ecology, Ornithology, and Introduction to Biology

2012 – 2014: Teaching Assistant, Department of Biology, Villanova University

Classes: General Biology, Animal Behavior, Biology and Politics, Ecology,

Entomology, and Endocrinology

Outreach and Service:

2018 – 2019: Volunteer at the Undergraduate Biology Research Program’s Pen Pal STEM Event

2018: Judge for the Graduate and Professional Student Council Student Showcase

2017 – 2019: Judge for the Graduate and Professional Student Council Student Travel Award

2017 – 2019: Guide lab tours and discuss careers with Arizona's Science, Engineering and Math Scholars

2017 – 2019: Science Fair Judge for Tucson High Magnet School

2016: Volunteer at Tucson Wildlife Center

2015 – 2019: Volunteer at the Tucson Festival of Books

2014 – 2018: Volunteer at the Arizona Insect Festival

Mentoring:

2021 – Present: Mentored junior data scientists

2019 – 2021: Mentored three undergraduate students. All three belonged to underrepresented groups in science

2018 – 2019: Mentoring a high school student at University High School on a science fair project. Her project won second place in the Southern Arizona Research, Science and Engineering Foundation fair and the Ricoh Sustainable Development Award.

2017 – 2018: Mentored a high school student at Empire High School on a science fair project. Her project won second place in the Southern Arizona Research, Science and Engineering Foundation fair.

2016: Mentored a KEYS High School Summer Intern.

2016 – 2019: Mentored nine undergraduate students. Seven of the eight students belonged to underrepresented groups in science. All students have presented posters at Undergraduate Biology Research Program Conferences.

Education:

2015 – 2019: The University of Arizona, Tucson Arizona: Ph.D. (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)

Dissertation: “How does diversity influence system performance? The evolutionary

ecology of body size variation in the common eastern bumble bee (Bombus impatiens)

Advisor: Dr. Anna Dornhaus

2011 – 2014: Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania: M.S. (Biology)

Thesis: “Song use in Carolina Chickadee (Poecile carolinensis) and its relation to

personality”

Advisor: Dr. Robert L. Curry

2007 - 2010: The College of New Jersey, Ewing, New Jersey: B.S. in Biological Sciences