Before joining the University of Scranton, I was a post-doctoral researcher at Yale University in the lab of Dr. Martha Muñoz. I received my B.Sc. from John Carroll University in 2006 and M.Sc. from the population and conservation biology program at Texas State University-San Marcos in 2009. During my stay at Texas State I was mentored by Dr. Michael R.J. Forstner while I completed my master's thesis project on the role of predation in the evolution of color polymorphism in the mottled rock rattlesnake (Crotalus l. lepidus). I completed my Ph.D. at Ohio University in Athens, OH under the guidance of Dr. Donald B. Miles in 2017. My dissertation focused on the role of micro-habitat in the evolutionary ecology of plethodontid salamanders.