I come from a background in outdoor preschool teaching, which I did part-time for four years throughout college. The love of education and the outdoors that I developed there led me to begin working with the Fairfax County Park Authority in northern Virginia as a Roving Naturalist, working primarily with the Meaningful Watershed Educational Experience program for 4th, 5th, and 7th graders and with the Wonder Wagon Mobile Nature Center. I co-presented about my work with the Wonder Wagon at the NAI national conference in Virginia Beach in November 2025. I also am a naturalist at Croydon Creek Nature Center in Rockville, Maryland, where I lead interpretive programming with live animals and outdoor hikes and care for multiple animals including reptiles, amphibians, and birds of prey. 

Recently, I also began working with NOVA Parks as an Educator at Meadowlark Botanical Gardens. In this role, I lead tours around the botanic garden and present environmental and botanical information in engaging ways to tour groups of all ages, from kindergarteners to senior gardening groups. I also am starting a journey of volunteering with the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, where I will present interpretive programming and support visitors in the Hall of Human Origins.