I grew up in the land of beautiful beaches, pine forests, and rolling hills. Also suburbs. This land is called New Jersey and I credit its rich diversity of ecosystems and interminably opinionated people for making me the person I am today. 

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I left my hometown for Washington, DC in 2017, ready to entrench myself in the halls of power. I became passionate about environmental justice and fixated on climate policy. I split my time between international climate coursework, environmental research, and then ultimately, in a communications role for an environmental justice nonprofit. 

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All of these experiences underscored the urgency and complexity of the compounding ecological crises we find ourselves in. But none laid out a roadmap for me. Until I found myself writing again, for work, for community organizations, and for myself. It reminded me of the thing that has always made me feel most powerful: immortalizing our constantly changing world into stories.

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These stories brought me to the Science Communication master's program at the University of California, Santa Cruz in the fall of 2025. I spent the academic year doing what I love, writing for the people about climate change and plenty of other scientific disciplines, and learning how to do it better from world-class journalists. I interned for the Monterey Herald, Science and Nature under the mentorship of fantastic editors (and alongside lots of cool alumni). I also got the chance to write for Eos, Mongabay, KneeDeep Times, and the San Jose Mercury News. Finally, I spent the year as a Science Communication Fellow for UCSC's Center for Coastal Climate Resilience, getting to cover leading edge marine science and oceanographic research.

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Following graduation, I'm continuing on the internship path with my summer spent at Knowable Magazine, where I've gotten to cover microbiology, glaciology, and more. 

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I still have a lot to learn about environmental storytelling. But one thing that's already clear to me is that from coast to coast, our problems are similar. And our solutions thrive in daylight.