After receiving my undergraduate degree in 2008, I went to University of Maryland to continue my education at the PhD level. After I graduated in 2016, I worked as a postdoc and consultant at various international conservation NGOs, such as the IUCN, Winrock International, and WWF. I conducted science research that looks into optimizing the tradeoffs between ecological and economic benefits, using remote sensing to quantify the land use/land cover change and its policy implications, as well as working with the local communities.

Currently I work at a conservation nonprofit that is more national focus. It gives me the opportunity to work with the indigenous communities with less barrier and see the more direct impact of how science got used in policy making.