BSc Agricultural Sciences in Horticulture – University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez

MS Biology student – University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez

MBA student – University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras

Master's of Agribusiness student – Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE) of Costa Rica

USDA-NRCS Agronomist at Missouri State Office focusing in statewide natural resource conservation in agronomic policy, Horticulturalist, Landscape Designer, Plant Collector, Plant Researcher & Political Activist

Interests: Plant conservation of Puerto Rican natives & endemics, plant evolutionary biology, plant physiology, morphology & genetics. Particular interest in the genus Peperomia in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean.