Allie joined the Plant Ecology lab in May 2021 as a research technician. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Florida State University in biological science, where she first was able to study botany and realize her passion about the vast plant biodiversity in northwest Florida. After graduating, she had the opportunity to join the Fire Ecology lab at Tall Timbers Research Station in Tallahassee, where she gained general fieldwork experience and field taxonomic skills working across the region in longleaf pine herbaceous communities. She also was able to learn about the importance of prescribed fire regimes in fire-dependent ecosystems and helped perform prescribed fires in these native longleaf pine habitats. This experience led her to persue her master’s degree, where she returned to Florida State University under the direction of Dr. Nora Underwood and Dr. Brian Inouye. Her graduate studies built upon her research experience at Tall Timbers, where she studied the relationship between recurrent fire regimes and the native bee community in the Apalachicola National Forest. After joining the Plant Ecology lab at the Jones Center, she has enjoyed learning new fieldwork and labwork skills dedicated to building a seedbank with uncommon plant species across the property and southwest Georgia. She has also enjoyed implementing her plant-insect interactions research interests to identifying native pollinators for plants of conservation interest. She hopes in the future to build off of her experience here at the Jones Center to continue a career in plant conservation, and to promote scientific outreach about the importance of conserving plant biodiversity. Outside of her research interests, she enjoys hiking, kayaking, and tap dancing.