Engineer.
Researcher.
Builder.

I'm the only woman in almost every room I've walked into. That's not a complaint. It's the reason I build what I build.

This past summer I was at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, in the Electromagnetic Environments Testing Branch, working on electromagnetic environmental effects and building a test fixture we called the Iron Hand Mark 3. Most of my time outside that goes to EvE Waste, the startup I co-founded in 2024 and serve as CTO. We build modular anaerobic reactors that sit on-site at food manufacturers, digest their organic waste before it can be hauled to a landfill, and turn the digestate into a nutrient additive we sell on. There's a pilot running at Clocktower and testing underway on Ohio State's campus. Alongside that I serve as Vice President of the United Nations Association of Ohio, and I attended Climate Week NYC this year.

Two papers came out this year: one with IEEE modeling dark oxygen flux across the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, the stretch of Pacific seabed the deep-sea mining industry wants most, and one with Springer on physics-informed deep learning for tidal energy siting. My independent work on compost-powered microbial fuel cells was published in Sustentabilis Terra in 2025 and earned the EPA Award at ISEF.

I grew up in Lima, Ohio, watching science fairs from the sidelines: curious but under-resourced, with no roadmap for how someone like me got to stand at a project board at a national competition. When I found my way in, through a teacher who believed in me and a community that showed up, it changed everything. That's why I founded the FairGame Initiative, which has now connected with more than 500 students across 14+ countries, most of them entering their first science fair, supported by a database of 50+ judges and mentors and a free resource library for teachers running fairs on no budget.

The direction I'm building toward sits at the overlap of engineering and environmental law, not because I couldn't choose between them, but because the most important problems won't be solved by either field alone. The science tells us what's possible. The policy determines what actually happens. I want to be someone who can move in both rooms.