I received my BS in biology with minors in chemistry and Spanish from the University of South Carolina. I then received an NIH-John’s Hopkins Fellowship where I worked as a post-baccalaureate fellow at the NCI and received my MS in biotechnology with a concentration in Molecular Targets and Drug Discovery from Hopkins. While at the NIH, I worked under Dr. Natasha Caplen, elucidating how RNA secondary structures and binding of an HNRNP affects the exclusion of an exon necessary for Ewing Sarcoma pathogenesis. I’m currently a PhD student in Pharmacology and a part of PSTP. My project involves delineating how regulators of cAMP and scaffolding proteins modulate the location bias of GPCR signaling. Outside of lab I like to paint, lose at trivia, and bask in the sun like an iguana while eating sour gummy worms.