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I'm an honors undergraduate student majoring in global environmental science with a minor in anthropology at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (expected graduation: May 2026). I'm also a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
I was a member of the UH Rainbow Warrior Marching Band color guard! I did color guard all four years of my undergrad, and performed at all of our home football games in those years.
My senior thesis project is a field-based research project grounded in indigenous knowledge and practices. Through this project, I'm characterizing and quantifying aggregating behavior in hā‘uke‘uke - a culturally significant and native species of sea urchin in Hawai‘i.
In October 2025, I presented a poster of some preliminary data from my thesis project and won an award at my first ever conference - the SACNAS NDiSTEM Conference in Columbus, OH!
I'm also a Class of 2024 NOAA Educational Partnership Program with Minority Serving Institutions (EPP) scholar.
Through EPP, I had opportunity to intern at the National Sea Grant Office in Silver Spring, MD during the summer of 2024, where I posted and promoted educational material developed by Sea Grant programs to the Sea Grant Teachers Pay Teachers storefront.
During the summer of 2025, I also got to intern at the Kasitsna Bay Laboratory (KBL) in Seldovia, AK as an EPP scholar. That summer, I conducted a wide array of ecological field surveys in a tidal lagoon system that had never been researched before, and got to assist with CTD casts aboard the R/V Edgecumbe.
I LOVE sea urchins! (Obviously.) I'll happily splash in tide pools with them, research them, and eat them!
For my spring 2024 semester, I went on exchange at the University of Rhode Island, where I conducted aquaculture research with the Echinonerd Lab and (equally importantly) had my first ever snow day!
During my fall 2023 semester, I conducted stable isotope ecology research aboard the R/V Kilo Moana off the coasts of Hawai‘i.
I'm a published poet in volume 10 of the UH Horizons Undergraduate Journal, with my poem "The End and Start of the World".
My aspirations for a career in science are rooted in a deep love for this beautiful world we live in. I believe that learning about it from many diverse perspectives is the best way to meaningfully protect it and live in sustainable relationship with it.
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