I was born in Washington D.C. and attended high school in Bethesda, MD. I left the Metropolitan area in 1993 to attend college where I graduated from Emory University in 1997. I received a B.A. with majors in Anthropology and Political Science as well as a minor in Sociology. As an undergraduate I became interested in Archaeology and was able to spend the summer of 1997 in Israel, working on an Iron Age site called Tel Beth Shemesh, in the town of Beth Shemesh. I also became interested in scuba diving as an undergraduate and was certified as a Master Scuba Diver. After graduation, I spent six months interning in the archaeology lab of the Fernbank Museum of Natural History in Atlanta, GA, where I had the opportunity to analyze prehistoric Native American cultural remains. I returned to the D.C. area in the summer of 1998 where I began to teach middle school science. This fall, I will begin my seventh year teaching and my fifth year at The Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart where I teach 8th grade science and 5th grade math. It just so happens that the mascot for Stone Ridge is the Alligator. In addition to being a full time teacher I am pursuing an M.A. in Andean Archaeology at Catholic University of America. My graduate studies allowed me to participate in the 2003 excavations of a Middle Horizon Huari site called Conchopata in Ayacucho, Peru. I have also spent the summers of 2002 and 2004 working as a Field Technician for Thunderbird Archaeological Association, a Cultural Research Management firm located in Woodstock, VA. I am very excited to be involved with the search for the USS Alligator since it ties together several disciplines that I have worked with. To be able to integrate the USS Alligator project into my science curriculum and the opportunity.
I was born in Washington D.C. and attended high school in Bethesda, MD. I left the Metropolitan area in 1993 to attend college where I graduated from Emory University in 1997. I received a B.A. with majors in Anthropology and Political Science as well as a minor in Sociology. As an undergraduate I became interested in Archaeology and was able to spend the summer of 1997 in Israel, working on an Iron Age site called Tel Beth Shemesh, in the town of Beth Shemesh. I also became interested in scuba diving as an undergraduate and was certified as a Master Scuba Diver. After graduation, I spent six months interning in the archaeology lab of the Fernbank Museum of Natural History in Atlanta, GA, where I had the opportunity to analyze prehistoric Native American cultural remains. I returned to the D.C. area in the summer of 1998 where I began to teach middle school science. This fall, I will begin my seventh year teaching and my fifth year at The Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart where I teach 8th grade science and 5th grade math. It just so happens that the mascot for Stone Ridge is the Alligator. In addition to being a full time teacher I am pursuing an M.A. in Andean Archaeology at Catholic University of America. My graduate studies allowed me to participate in the 2003 excavations of a Middle Horizon Huari site called Conchopata in Ayacucho, Peru. I have also spent the summers of 2002 and 2004 working as a Field Technician for Thunderbird Archaeological Association, a Cultural Research Management firm located in Woodstock, VA. I am very excited to be involved with the search for the USS Alligator since it ties together several disciplines that I have worked with. To be able to integrate the USS Alligator project into my science curriculum and the opportunity.