Originally from the mountains of Jefferson County, Colorado, I attended the Unversity of Colorado at Boulder studying infectious disease ecology with Pieter Johnson, PhD where I received a Goldwater Scholarship and graduated with highest honors. I then moved to Atlanta, Georgia and received a PhD from Emory University in Environmental Health Sciences with Lance Waller, PhD and funding from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program. I completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Cancer Institute through the Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program working with Rena Jones, PhD, MS and Mary Ward, PhD in the Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch in the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics in Rockville, Maryland. I am now an Epidemiologist at DLH Corporation (formerly known as Social and Scientific Systems, Inc.), in Bethesda, Maryland.
My research focuses on the (geo)spatial and environmental epidemiology of cancer and infectious disease. You can follow my research in progress on my GitHub. I have written scientific publications and have presented my research at numerous scientific conferences. I am an ad hoc reviewer for Annals of Epidemiology, Cancer Causes & Control, Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, Environmental Research, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, International Journal of Health Geographics, Methods in Ecology and Evoluation, PLoS - Neglected Tropical Diseases, and Scientific Reports.