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I graduated in the Spring semester of 2017. Currently, I work as the Student Health Ambassador Program Manager for the UNC Health Sciences Department at the Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC). My work centers around collaborating with students, faculty, and administrative staff at six Western North Carolina Institutes of Higher Education on the importance of mitigating and improving their campus response to COVID-19. WNC prides itself on tight-knit communities and throughout the pandemic, my work within the student health ambassador program has helped contribute to connecting, training, and equitably improving the health outcomes of our mountain area college and university populations. 

Additionally in my role at MAHEC, I have had the great opportunity to work with the UNC Asheville Health Policy Initiative. There I create rich interactive policy maps that communicate trends in workforce capacity across Western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee. This information is shared with senior leadership and health policy experts from across our organization and state to better understand and contextualize where our educational gaps/academic deserts are and how they feed into our current workforce capacity conditions.        

​As an undergraduate in the HWP Program at UNCA, I was passionate about research and community. With the help of Dr. Amy Lanou I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to be a research assistant on multiple projects. I learned early on what it meant to take HWP theories and turn them into practice. Having this formative academic experience formed the backbone of what I saw myself pursuing long term. This remained a key reason why I pursued my Masters of Public Health (MPH) from UNC Chapel Hill. And why I chose to work for a health center, MAHEC, that focused on improving how medical providers heal communities beyond the walls of the clinic. In my work with MAHEC I have been able to help design research programs and program evaluations that aim to help serve the current and future needs of the community. Health and wellness is rarely a singular journey, but rather a collective endeavor. For HWP students past and present it's important to lift each other up by getting to know our neighbors, volunteering for causes you believe in, and leveraging your degree for the benefit of domestic and global communities.

Outside of work I love to travel around WNC, whether that's photographing nature, hiking a mountain ridge, or finding what feels like an undiscovered waterfall. Just getting out into nature is my favorite way to disconnect and recharge. Volunteering with local food banks and nonprofits remains a way I get to know my community better through the action of helping my neighbors.