About

I was in college when I first heard the terms energy balance and climate sensitivity. I was an undergraduate at UC Berkeley, and I realized then that I wanted to study and better understand our natural world. I majored in Molecular Environmental Biology and Earth & Planetary Science (emphasis in Geology), and I decided to pursue graduate school.

I studied past climates as a way to understand our future climate for my graduate work. I did a Ph.D. at Princeton University in Geosciences - specifically using stable isotope geochemistry to understand how polar ice contains a record of climate history. I had the incredible opportunity to travel to some of the most remote parts of the world and work with some of the brightest minds in the paleoclimate field.

I quickly followed up my graduate work with a postdoctoral fellowship at the Desert Research Institute, where I took a closer look at data from ice core records. It was during this time that I came to a better understanding of how I wanted to have a positive impact on the people around me and future generations.

I am now at Stanford University in the Doerr School of Sustainability as a Lecturer and Educational Affairs Program Director, where I teach courses and create programs for undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs that connect academic learning with real world impact.