I am an invertebrate paleobiologist focused on trilobite phylogenetics, paleoecology, and macroevolution. I graduated from Mount Holyoke College in western Massachusetts in 2014 with a Bachelor of Arts in Biology, then completed an MS in Earth and Environmental Science from the University of Iowa. Research for my MS focused on description of five new species, assigned to a new genus of dimeropygid trilobites from the earliest stage of the Ordovician of western Utah and southeastern Idaho.