I graduated from Davis Senior High School in June, 2019. I took a gap year before going to college and traveled to Brazil and Peru, where I volunteered with reforestation efforts, an organic farm, and spent a month on a research station in the Amazon rain forest.
I started college at the University of California, Santa Barbara in the summer of 2020, doing a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies, with minors in Music and American Indian and Indigenous Studies. In 2021 I joined the Moeller Lab at UCSB and took on an independent research project about the relationship between Valley Oak Trees (Quercus lobata) and ectomycorrhizal fungi under drought stress.
Later that year I moved into Manley House, a house that is part of the Santa Barbara Student Housing Cooperative. I was an active member in efforts to maintain the house, garden, and structure of the organization.
In January to September 2023, I studied abroad at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. I focused my studies on Māori language and culture.
In June 2024, I will graduate from the University of California, Santa Barbara, with a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies and a minor in American Indian and Indigenous Studies. I am currently doing a working holiday for a year in New Zealand, and afterwards I hope to work a job in the direction of Indigenous land management policy.