Hometown
Kernersville, NC

Undergraduate Degree
BS Biological Engineering
NC AT State University

Who is your advisor and what are you studying?

Dr. John Classen, The environmental and economic trade-offs of alternative technologies for animal waste management and nutrient recovery

What first made you interested in this field?

The complex and beautiful relationship between humans and the environment. As a society that coexists with nature, we as engineers and scientists have a responsibility to ensure that both are cared for and that one does not succeed at the expense of the other.

What do you like most about BAE as a field or the department?

The amazing faculty, staff, and students that make the BAE a family.

What is a little known or fun fact about you?

I have the same birthday as Albert Einstein. One of my favorite quotes of his is “if you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”