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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. I'm also a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
I do color guard for the UH Rainbow Warrior Marching Band! I've been in color guard all four years of my undergrad, and have 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 interested in characterizing and quantifying aggregating behavior in hā‘uke‘uke - a 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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