Biography

My work has focused on creating science communication initiatives for various audiences and community engagement specifically related to coastal communities. Prior to graduate school, I received my Bachelor of Arts in Communications and Media Studies from Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island. I have a wide variety of applied communications experience in environmental services for a range of organizations. Most recently as a Communications Fellow for Rhode Island Sea Grant, I worked on project implementation leading a project to evaluate stakeholder use of the MyCoast, a community coastal resilience mobile application. I also had the opportunity to plan and implement a project to update Shoreline-RI.com, a public web application promoting public access to the Rhode Island shoreline by providing information about over 400 public access sites throughout the state. I was able to visit those 400-plus public access sites throughout the summer, working to add new sites and ensure that information on each access site is as up-to-date and accurate as possible. I am currently a graduate student in the MESM program specializing in environmental communications, on track to graduate in May 2023.