My current career goal is to collect experiences that destroy my preconceptions of environmental health. I learned in Yellowstone that I was blind to the true extent of human destruction on the Texas coast because there is no untouched habitat. Like most young marine biologists I began with a very specific idea of what my career would be. All I wanted was to research movement of marine fishes. Everything I did was working towards that end, including going to Yellowstone. I was not excited about working in freshwater habitat. How arrogant I was. My worldview was destroyed seeing how the forests and rivers stretched on further than the eye could see. Rarely at home I’d find a view of the marsh without sight of where it ended and imagine how the world was before. But in Yellowstone I didn’t have to imagine it. It was healthy and beautiful at every scale. Coming home was like developing the ability to see ghosts. The breadth of my ignorance shocked me. Now my life’s mission has become the never-ending illumination of those blind spots in my own worldview. I’m interested in fish, fire, trees, bugs and birds. There's no telling where I might end up anymore. When I graduate in the spring I will try to find a seasonal position in a National Park or perhaps go abroad for the first time.

• Shorebird Monitor

  Environmental Science · Ecosystem Planning and Restoration

  Dec 2025 – Jan 2026

• Environmental educator

  Environmental Science · Galveston Bay Foundation

  Nov 2024 – May 2025

• Yellowstone cutthroat trout conservation intern

  Environmental Science · Student Conservation Association, National Parks Service

  Aug 2024 – Oct 2024

• Fisheries management intern

  Fishery · Texas Parks and Wildlife, Coastal Fisheries Division

  May 2023 – Aug 2023

• Habitat assessment and ecosystem resources intern

  Environmental Services · Texas Parks and Wildlife, Coastal Fisheries Division

  May 2022 – Aug 2022

• Charter fishing deckhand

  Fishery · Wave Dancer Charters

  Oct 2022 – Dec 2022

• Reef exhibit educator

  Aquarium · Kemah Aquarium

  Dec 2021 – May 2022

• Advocacy
• Politics
• Volunteering
• Philanthropy

• Soccer

  Club · 2 awards

  2018 – 2022

  Awards:

  TASCO Academic All State, TASCO 2nd Team All District

• Designed and implemented research project

  Texas Parks and Wildlife · Fishing and Fisheries Sciences and Management

  2023 – 2023

  Research topic:

  Post-restoration site evaluation for oyster settlement on two different cultch types

• Oyster reef restoration, environmental education

  Volunteering · Galveston Bay Foundation

  2022 – 2022

  Mission:

  Environmental restoration