I grew up in rural Colorado, and have spent much of my life trying to justify spending time in the woods. I received a BA in Human Biology from Stanford in 2011, PhD in Biology from the University of Washington in 2017 and was an NSF Biological Collections and NOAA Climate and Global Change Fellow at UC Berkeley. My research seeks to scale up the physiological responses of plants to biotic and abiotic stress in order to explain population level, community level and biogeographic processes.