I am a 5th year Quantitative Biology PhD candidate and AAUW American Fellow in the Walsh Lab at The University of Texas at Arlington. I am broadly interested in the interplay between biotic stressors and adaptation. My research to date evaluates the connection between ecological processes and intraspecific variation in complex traits. I merge laboratory and field-based approaches to test hypotheses related to evolutionary, behavioral, and cellular/physiological processes in an ecological framework.