I joined the Department of Atmospheric Sciences in Fall 2021 as a master's student being co-advised by Drs. Stephen Nesbitt and Robert J. Trapp working on overshooting convection. I earned my MS degree from the department in May 2023 and am continuing on to my Ph.D. In June 2022, I was awarded a NASA Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) fellowship to research how thermodynamics in the upper troposphere-lower stratosphere impact overshooting tops. I also was part of the Propagation, Evolution and Rotation in Linear Storms (PERiLS) field campaign in Spring 2022/3. In addition to my research, I currently serve as a student member on the planning committee for the Atmospheric Sciences Section for the annual American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting and as a member of the Student Board for Professional Development for the American Meteorological Society (AMS).

Within the department, I have also served on the DEI committee and am an officer in Department of Atmospheric Sciences Student Organization (DASSO). I was the DEI Chair for DASSO from 2022-2023 and currently serve as the President (2023-2024). I am also involved with outreach events, especially those with the DOWs and other FARM facilities. 

I earned my bachelor's degree in June 2021 from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in Atmospheric, Oceanic and Environmental Sciences. While there, I was an undergraduate student researcher in the Saide group working on improving quantification of burned area from satellite active fire detections. That work was recently published in the International Journal of Wildland Fire. Additionally, I was a Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program (NREIP) intern at the US Naval Research Laboratory in Monterey, CA researching stratospheric aerosol loading by pyrocumulonimbus/pyroCb (wildfire-driven thunderstorms) during the summers of 2019, 2020 and 2021 with Dr. David Peterson. During the summer of 2019, I was also a member of the forecasting team on the Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality (FIREX-AQ) field campaign. My role was to produce outlooks for the potential for pyroconvection at fires of interest and also lead the development of forecasts for the NOAA Twin Otter and ground-based platforms during the latter portion of FIREX-AQ. 

Outside of my research, I love to hike, cook, bake, knit and crochet. I am also a passionate supporter of the Chicago White Sox, the UCLA Bruins and of course, the Fighting Illini.