Bachelor of Arts, 2015
Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
Major: Environmental Studies
Self-organised concentrations in Forestry Management and Environmental Anthropology.
Awarded the Blutinger Family Endowed Scholarship for Climate and Environmental Studies from 2013-2015.
completed coursework in:
Borderlands: Space, Place and Landscape, Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy, Conservation Biology, Diet and Health, Ecology, Environmental Ethics, Feast and Famine: Food and Social Relations, Food and Farming in America, Fundamentals of Environmental Challenges, Human Origins, Land Conservation in a Crowded World, and Nature, Culture, Power: Anthropology of the Environment
active membership in:
Kappa Beta Gamma International Sorority, Chi Chapter (Historian, Apparel Chair, Ritual Chair)
Students for a Just and Stable Future
Students for Environmental Action
Waltham Group
Student Support Services Program
projects & additional education experiences
The School For Field Studies, Center for Sustainable Development Studies, Atenas, Costa Rica
September 2013— December 2013
Project: A comparison of functional diversity across a land use gradient in the rainforest of Costa Rica. Supervisor: dr. A. Haeger.
Completed course work in Tropical Ecology, Natural Resource Management, Environmental Economics, and Language, Culture, and Society of Costa Rica.
Gained skills in species identification, project design, statistical analysis, ArcMap GIS, fDiversity, conversational and ecological Spanish.
Justice Brandeis Semester, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
September 2012— December 2012
Project: An analysis of the carbon sequestration value and economic benefit of managing forested land in the town of Weston.
Supervisor: dr. B. Donahue.
Completed course work in Sustainability in Suburbia, Field Biology, G.I.S. and Field Methods: The New England Landscape, Boston and Its Suburbs: Environment and History.
Gained skills in management plan development, research design, species identification, data collection and analysis.
Brandeis Sustainability Fund
Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
September 2011— May 2012
Project Leader: Contacted and communicated with local Boston company Greenbean Recycle Inc., and established a campus connection between the company and Brandeis.
Developed proposal, completed application process, and received grant money from the Brandeis Sustainability Fund to install a Reverse Vending Machine (RVM) on the Brandeis University campus.
Coordinated the maintenance of RVM and organised community engagement with the recycling program.