I am currently a graduate student in Astronomy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst working with Daniela Calzetti. I will defend my Ph.D. dissertation in the Summer of 2025. I received my Bachelor's degree in Physics from West Virginia University, not too far from where I was born and raised. I have been deeply interested in Space and what is out there and how it all works ever since I was a kid and saw, for the first time, the Milky Way stretching across the night sky, deep in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains.

My research is broadly centered on understanding star formation in the nearby universe at high resolution as afforded by state-of-the-art facilities like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). I am fascinated by the intricate balance between the cooling and collapse of gas to form new stars and the feedback processes that work to remove the gas and regulate future star formation. I am a member of the JWST FEAST collaboration. Recently, I have been studying the relation between ionized gas and dust emission in galaxies on scales of individual newly-formed, massive star clusters and tracing variations as a function of local environment. My work is essential to help develop our understanding of galaxy evolution and to help inform and enable studies of much more distant systems.