What Three Words Best Describe You?
Hardworking, Compassionate, Curious
What Is Your Dream Career?
My dream career is to work for the World Health Organization and engage in global studies to help, protect, and serve people and countries across the world. I would love to be a part of promoting better health, help create sustainable solutions to global issues, and improve the quality of life worldwide.
What Is Your Favorite Place Along Georgia’s Coast? What Do You Like Most About It?
My favorite place along Georgia’s coast is Jekyll Island. This island has natural beauty and history, and even though it is a tourist hotspot in the summer, it is also home to lots of coastal wildlife. There are parts of the island where you can spot ghost shrimp, seagulls, plovers, oystercatchers, skimmers, other shorebirds, crabs, and clams. Unlike Tybee, which almost all parts of the island seem to have been taken over by humans year after year. At Jekyll, sometimes you can even see some birds flying high and dropping clams to the ground to feed. Jekyll Island also consists of forested areas, such as the forest at the island’s north end. But shoreline erosion has caused the beach to take over the edges of the forest, causing many trees to die. The fact that this island can be a place for many tourists to relax and have fun, but also that it is home to so much wildlife, is what I like most about it.
What Coastal Issue(s) Are You Most Passionate About? Why?
The coastal issues I am most passionate about are human disturbance and coastal erosion. Lots of coastal life has been affected by human activity. Environmental pollution caused by human activity is a very common problem. Although there are a few groups/organizations that take care of our coast, this problem is yet to be solved. Due to climate change, the sea levels are rising, and our coasts have been affected by more storms and higher tides. With the temperature rising, more tropical storms and hurricanes are impacting the coast, causing flooding and coastal erosion. This issue has caused and can continue to cause habitat destruction for almost all wildlife that live on the coast. These are the issues that I am most passionate about because I feel like they are the most important, and most difficult to solve and that they will require long-term solutions in order to protect the coast and the wildlife living there.
