I'm a PhD student in Northwestern's joint program at the Chicago Botanic Garden. I received a Graduate Student Fellowship from the National Science Foundation that I am using to study the mycorrhizal ecology of terrestrial orchids that occur from Canada to Florida. I'm also working to establish an orchid seed bank at the Chicago Botanic Garden to safeguard the orchid diversity found throughout North America. I'm especially interested in the intraspecific variation in orchids that are able to occur in both temperate and sub tropical climates throughout North America.

Former Lab manager of FAU Pine Jog's Native Orchid propagation Lab.