Biography

Growing up in rural Maryland, I often entertained myself by capturing and raising a menagerie of local animals – minnows, spiders, newts, crayfish, rabbits, frogs, turtles, mantids, ants, birds…My love for wildlife was further enhanced as I read dozens of books by English conservationist Gerald Durrell, whose work inspired me to consider conservation as a career path. With Durrell’s bold, charismatic approach to saving rare animals as something of a guiding light, I studied Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at Princeton and conducted research in wildlife conservation. Also in college, my life was transformed as – for the first time – I truly grasped God’s beautiful redemptive narrative and understood its implications for the world and my life. Now, as I pursue graduate training in conservation biology at Cambridge and beyond, I am eager to serve others by bringing both science and faith to bear on some of the most pressing and difficult conservation challenges in the world.