I am a postdoc at the New York Botanical Garden working with Aleca Borsuk on comparative photosynthetic traits in understorey plants. I completed my PhD in 2026 with Kadeem Gilbert and Marjorie Weber on the evolutionary ecology of plant coloration and carnivorous plants. My work on comparative plant traits asks questions about functional traits, ecological pleiotropy, plant-insect signaling, and plant defense. My approach to science starts from natural history and incorporates manipulative field experiments, laboratory bioassays, and biogeographic and cross-species comparisons to gain a comprehensive understanding of plant traits, their ecological functions, and how they arise and are maintained.
