I am a recent graduate from Eckerd College, where I earned my B.S. in Biochemistry with high honors and a minor in Marine Science. I am currently a lab technician at the University of South Florida working under Dr. Mya Breitbart on a variety of projects, including marine virus discovery, removal of microplastics from wastewater, and the characterization of chemical contaminants in Tampa Bay, Florida.During my time at Eckerd, I was a student researcher in the laboratory of Dr. Greg Felton, where I researched organometallic catalysts for clean hydrogen generation and CO2 sequestration, and investigated light-initiated CO-releasing molecules (photoCORMs).During the summer of 2022, I interned in Dr. Ben Kleinstiver's Lab at the Center for Genomic Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, where I helped design new CRISPR-Cas9 Base Editors that can target non-canonical regions in DNA.