I am an Ojibwe woman from Havre, Montana near the Ahsiniiwin (Rocky Boy) Chippewa Cree Reservation and am of Mikinaakwajiw-ininiwag (Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa) descent. I am currently a PhD Candidate in Environmental Engineering, Ford Foundation Fellow, and Environmental Research and Education Foundation (EREF) Scholar at Purdue University. 

My dissertation research is titled: Selective remediation of aqueous heavy metal contaminants from industrial wastewater using textile-derived biochar modified by cationic surfactant. 

I started at Purdue in August 2019 as a Purdue Doctoral Fellow, a Sloan Indigenous Graduate Partnership Scholar, and a Gates Millennium Graduate Scholar. Previously I graduated from Montana Technological University in May 2019 with an Environmental Engineering, M.S., and received my Chemistry, B.S. from the University of Montana in May 2016. 

My primary focus has been water quality research in an analytical chemistry and environmental engineering capacity. Once in a faculty position, I plan to run my future research lab using sustainable adsorbents and novel technologies to selectively remediate aqueous heavy metal contaminants from impacted natural waterways while working closely with Indigenous communities.