I am originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, so I am a big LSU Tigers fan. After a couple of moves while growing up, I ended up in Georgia where I graduate from Georgia Tech with a degree in Civil & Environmental Engineering. I worked as a civil engineer designing wastewater treatment plants and pipelines from 2001 - 2011. Then I returned to graduate school at the University of Tennessee and got a master's degree in Information Science. I worked as the Data Curation Librarian at the University of Tennessee from 2013 - 2023 when I came to Carleton College.