Welcome!
I'm an urban ecologist who centers societal inequity and injustice to understand the landscape people and wildlife experience, and what that means for our collective futures. My research spans across ecological scales, from what shapes an individual's behavior to investigating the drivers of biodiversity, and thinks holistically about cities to promote positive human-wildlife interactions, evenly monitor urban biodiversity, and improve access to nature.  

Currently, I'm a NSF Graduate Research & Chancellor Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley in the Schell Lab. I'm also an urban ecologist at Second Nature Ecology + Design. I formerly served as the Co-Chair of the Environmental Justice Section of the Ecological Society of America from 2021-2023.
"There will never be science for the people until we have all the people in science." - Dr. Joseph Graves Jr.
Recent publications:
- In Conservation Biology. Check out "Queer Black Voices in Conservation" as an open access article here!
- In Ecology & Society. Check out "Examining the influence of sociodemographics, residential segregation, and historical redlining on eBird and iNaturalist data disparities in three US cities" as an open access article here!
- In the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Check out "Historical redlining is associated with disparities in wildlife biodiversity in four California cities" as an open access article here! 
- In People & Nature. Check out "A framework for contexualizing social-ecological biases in contributory science data" as an open access article here!
- In Environmental Science & Technology Letters. Check out "Historical redlining is associated with disparities in environmental quality across California" as an open access article here! 
Header image by Zoë Rossman