When I was about three years old, my family took me to the American Museum of Natural History in New York.  My mother says that I ran up to the Apatosaurus and tried to hug it.  Love at first sight. 

In college I studied geology and minored in biology at Rutgers University.  I  volunteered at the Rutgers University Geology Museum, helping the curator, Bill Selden, organize the collections.   I've also spent time as a Fossil Explainer at the American Museum of Natural History.

In 2005, I met Dr. Jack Horner at the New Jersey State Museum.  Now I am working towards my PhD under Jack's guidance. 

I get to spend every day with dinosaurs and other extinct creatures.

It's pretty much everything I dreamed of when I was three.