I studied biology, chemistry, and maths to A level, with physics at AS level and an EPQ in consumerism and sustainability of plastics and palm oil. I was supported in Post 16 by the Access Project, and I was part of the SMT and the Scholars programme. I went on to read Natural Sciences at Cambridge University, a broad course in which multiple sciences are studied throughout the degree. I took Evolution, Cell Biology, Earth Sciences and Maths in my first year and specialised to Zoology by my final year. I was part of equality and diversity groups at university; I now sit on the education and early careers committee in the British Ecological Society to continue this work. Following my degree, I plan to stay in academia. I currently work as a research assistant in agricultural science, studying photosynthesis traits in maize, and I am involved in a project to rewild locally extinct grasshoppers.