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I graduated with a B.S. in Global Environmental Science with Honors and a minor in Anthropology from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa in May 2026. I'm also a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and represented the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology as the undergraduate student marshal at the commencement ceremony.
During my time at UH, I was a member of the 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.
I LOVE sea urchins! (Obviously.) I'll happily splash in tide pools with them, research them, and eat them!
My senior honors thesis was a field-based research project centering Hawai‘i indigenous knowledge and western science. Through this project, I characterized and quantified seasonal fluctuations in the aggregating behavior of 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.
I also got to intern at the Kasitsna Bay Laboratory (KBL) in Seldovia, AK during summer 2025 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.
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, and I believe that living in sustainable relationship with the world requires developing place-based knowledge within a community centered in both scientific and indigenous knowledge systems.
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