I grew up in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado Springs, CO.

I attended undergrad at the University of Colorado Boulder where I majored in Physics and Astronomy. I worked with Dr. Guy Stringfellow on regular observing campaigns to search for flaring stars. When not observing, we used APOGEE spectra to study massive Be stars.

After undergrad, I took time off and moved out to LA where I worked as a Science Data Analyst on the NASA Exoplanet Archive. If you've used the Exoplanet Archive, changes are you're looking at data I entered into the database! Towards the end of my time at Caltech, I switched to studying young open clusters and stellar rotation with Dr. Luke Bouma.

In the summer before starting grad school, I worked as an astronomy ranger at Great Basin National Park. Great Basin is a stunning park in remote eastern Nevada (we were ~70 miles from the nearest grocery store!), meaning it has some of the darkest night skies in the United States. It also has groves of Bristlecone Pines --- the oldest trees in the world.

I am now a graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where I still study stellar rotation and use it to explore our local neighborhood.