Biography

I received my undergraduate degree in biological anthropology and Spanish from the University of Arkansas. During my time there I conducted field research in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Tanzania as well as lab research on the dental microwear of Brazilian primates to create an extant baseline series for comparison with fossil teeth in order to infer more about the diets of possible human ancestors. I am interested in human evolutionary science and how it can be significant for issues relevant to our existence today. I am excited to continue by education at Cambridge, where I intend to focus on paleoecology and the role environmental dynamics can play in evolutionary processes, including how climate change could have affected human evolution. I also have a great interest in accurate scientific education in public schools, specifically with regard to climate change and evolution. I intend to be an advocate for thorough and unbiased scientific education throughout my career.