Penelope grew up in Boston, Massachusetts and has always loved animals and being outside. She recently graduated from Brown University, where she studied ecology, evolution, and organismal biology. Throughout her undergraduate degree she pursued conservation research, collecting data for a long-term biodiversity monitoring project in Mexico during summer 2021 and contributing to a project on wildlife nutrition in Yellowstone National Park as a research assistant in the Kartzinel Lab. In addition to research, she is passionate about environmental education and communicating science to the general public. She has been involved with online outreach and social media for Bahamas Plastic Movement, an anti-plastic pollution non-profit, and Biodiversity for a Livable Climate, an ecosystem restoration organization based in Cambridge, MA. She is excited to continue making science accessible and engaging while learning more about informal environmental education.

Job duties for TERC coming soon.