Biography

As an undergraduate studying geology, geochemistry, and archaeological sciences at MIT, my research interests span the intersections among those fields to better understand how the natural environments of the past shaped human movement and decision-making. I believe that looking to past civilization change can be a powerful means to drive climate activism today, and I aim to apply the lessons learned from my research to inform modern climate policy and industry, especially in my home state of California. As a NOAA Hollings Scholar, I explored impact-driven groundwater geochemistry in the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, and as an MIT Climate & Sustainability Consortium fellow, I have reconstructed late Pleistocene paleoclimate of Northeastern Mexico. At Cambridge, I will undertake a Research MPhil in Earth Sciences with Dr. David Hodell at the Godwin Lab for Paleoclimate, where I will investigate the impact of past climate on the Postclassic Maya city of Mayapán via cave sediment records. My goal is to address resolution difficulties in pairing paleoclimate and archaeological data while contributing to our understanding of human-climate-environment changes in the Yucatán peninsula, especially during times of drought and conflict.

Previous Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Geosciences 2023