Environmental Engineering student at Ohio State · Humanitarian Engineering Scholars Program · Pre-Law Minor in Science & Engineering in the Public Interest
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 finally found my way in, through a teacher who believed in me and a community that showed up, it changed everything. That experience is the through-line of most of what I build.
Now I'm an Environmental Engineering student at Ohio State in the Humanitarian Engineering Scholars Program, pursuing a pre-law minor in Science and Engineering in the Public Interest. My research spans deep-sea electrochemistry, machine learning applications in ocean science, and renewable energy systems. Two papers are in press for 2026 — one with IEEE, one with Springer — and my independent MFC research was published in Sustentabilis Terra in 2025. In parallel, I compete on Ohio State's Model UN team, where I work at the intersection of technical knowledge and international policy.
The direction I'm building toward sits at the overlap of environmental engineering and 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.