Experience

Fung Fellowship at UC Berkeley

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Conservation + Innovation Fellow

  • Aug 2023 - Present

  Berkeley, California, United States Developing conservation based projects for non-profits.



University and Jepson Herbaria

• Biotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Data Analyst

  • May 2023 - Present

  In my current role, I import and organize occurrence data for 20 species of Iris series Californicae from multiple botanical databases into Excel. Using the R programming language and Maximum Entropy (MaxEnt) software within RStudio, I analyze the data and generate ecological niche models to predict the future geographic distributions of Iris series Californicae along the Pacific Coast.

• Research Assistant

  • Jan 2023 - Present

  Berkeley, California, United States Working closely with Dr. Carol Ann Wilson on the “Phylogeny and biogeography of Iris series Californicae based on next-generation sequencing” project. We are using a modified CTAB method to extract the DNA of 45 species.



Bloom Science, Inc.

• United States
• Biotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Synthetic Biology Intern

  • Jul 2023 - Aug 2023

  San Diego County, California, United States Working on Synthetic Biology projects which focus on the design and development of Engineered Living Therapeutics that leverage the Gut-Immune-Brain Axis.



San Diego Zoo Global

• Zoo Intern-InternQuest

  • Sep 2019 - Dec 2019

  San Diego, California, United States Career exploration program where I interviewed and co-wrote a blog for different professions at the San Diego Zoo, San Diego Safari Park, and Institute for Conservation Research (Beckman Center).