I'm proud to be a Quadruple Deac: after earning three graduate degrees from Wake Forest, I now serve as an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Mathematics.
My academic interests lie at the confluence of math and physics with applications in climate and environmental dynamics. Along with improving instruction through the scholarship of teaching an learning, my current research focuses on how extreme events, such as drought and fire, alter land-atmosphere interactions and impact carbon, water, and energy fluxes.
As a North Carolina Teaching Fellow, I earned a B.S. in Physics and a B.A. in Mathematics with Teacher Licensure in 2011 from the University of North Carolina Wilmington. I earned a M.A.Ed. in Secondary Science Education from Wake Forest in 2012 and taught high school math in Wilmington, NC for six years. I returned to Wake Forest in 2018 as a graduate student in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics where I completed my master's thesis under the direction of Dr. John Gemmer. I then pursued my doctoral work from the Department of Physics, graduating in 2025, where I conducted research in the Lowman Environmental Dynamics Lab under the direction of Dr. Lauren Lowman.
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