Research Projects

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Full-time

Aug 2022 - Present

Knoxville, Tennessee, United States

NSF IRES in Benin

Internship

May 2023 - Jul 2023 · 3 mos

Parakou, Borgou Department, Benin

Spent 6 weeks collaborating with students from the University of Parakou in Benin to design and implement an original research project studying the effects of chronic anthropogenic disturbance and plant diversity on the defense mutualism between Khaya senegalensis (African mahogany) and Oecophylla smaragdina (weaver ants).

Undergraduate Student Researcher

Western Kentucky University

Aug 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 2 mos

Bowling Green, Kentucky, United States

I am writing an Honors Thesis analyzing the changes in the zooplankton community of South-Central Kentucky between 2008 and 2020, with a special focus on the impacts of an introduced species, Daphnia lumholtzi, on the lake system as a whole.

2021 REU at the Missouri Botanical Garden

Missouri Botanical Garden · Internship

May 2021 - Aug 2021 · 4 mos

Paid internship in which I worked under the guidance of Dr. Wendy Applequist on a taxonomic study of Casearia sect. Casearia.

Interapt Digital Marketing Internship

Interapt · Internship

Jun 2020 - Jul 2020 · 2 mos

Paid internship in which participants took a General Assembly marketing class and applied the knowledge by designing a marketing plan for Interapt.

Student Researcher

Western Kentucky University · Apprenticeship

Aug 2019 - May 2020 · 10 mos