Rory has always loved learning, so much so that she recently started 19th grade (the first year of her PhD). She graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University with a degree in Integrative Biology and Environmental Science & Public Policy. She particularly enjoyed her undergraduate research project studying baboon group movement, which inspired Rory to pursue a Master’s degree in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology at Columbia University, where she studied the behavioral ecology of primates. Rory is currently a PhD student at Princeton University in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology department, where her research focuses on predator-prey interactions of large African savanna mammals.

Although her degrees are in Biology, Rory has always been an avid reader and writer. In college, she filled her schedule with literature, acting, creative writing, and journalism classes and wrote for the school newspaper. She believes that effective communication is a skill that is crucial in both the sciences and the humanities. This passion for writing and communication has led her to tutor students in research writing, English language and literature, and the verbal side of test prep.