About me

Welcome!

I am a data scientist who studies issues of equity and justice in social and environmental contexts. Most of my professional experience has been as a quantitative ecologist, but I have recently transitioned into topics more directly related to social progress. I am presently a data analyst with Yale’s Office of Institutional Research, working on helping the University to advance understanding and improve on issues surrounding diversity, equity, and inclusion.

In addition, I am quite passionate about teaching and education, and the intersectionality of race and gender issues in science. I also enjoy thinking about how to communicate science effectively, and the art of the visual presentation of quantitative information. (Read: I like making pretty maps and graphs.) I find a great deal of beauty in the relationships of natural processes and phenomena, and the wealth of information that we can infer about the world from simple observation.

I previously worked as an associate research scientist at the Yale Center for Biodiversity and Global Change and the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in New Haven, Connecticut. Prior to that I received a Ph.D. from the interdisciplinary Quantitative Ecology and Resource Management program at the University of Washington in Seattle in June 2018, working with Joshua Lawler in the School of Environmental and Forestry Sciences and Mark Kot in the Applied Math department.

Outside of work I like to spend my time gardening, herding chickens and children, working outside on a variety of half-finished personal projects, cooking, and taking advantage of seasonal foraging activities.