Danielle grew up in New York, where she received her B.S. (2013) and M.Sc. (2015) from the City College of New York (CUNY) in Dr. Ana Carnaval’s Lab where she focused on phylogeography and phylogenetics of Mabuya lizards in southeastern Brazil. She started working in nature at the Trailside Museums and Zoo in Bear Mountain State Park in New York, and enjoys traveling across the U.S. and well as doing fieldwork in the Atlantic Forests in Brazil. She spent her time in the Fujita Lab using amphibian and reptile systems in South America to study the patterns and processes driving genetic diversity across the continent.
Danielle received her PhD from UTA in 2021.
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