Personnel of the Division of Mammals
Lexi Baca
Graduate Assistant
Lexi is a Ph.D. student working on jerboas! She's unraveling many stories, from mitonuclear discordance to the intricacies of their desert adaptations. She plans on becoming a curator and professor with her own lab. She loves all aspects of this field: fieldwork, museums, lab work, and communicating science.
Destiny Gonzalez
Graduate Assistant
Destiny is an MS student in Museum Studies, pursuing a career in Collection Management. She began at MSB in her senior year of high school, finding her love for natural history and mammalogy then. She is especially interested in pathogens, and loves all bats - big and small.
Eve Rowland
Graduate Volunteer
Eve is a doctoral student in the Gulisija Computational Biology Lab at UNM. She hopes to find ways to combine museum research and computational biology. She has previously worked at the Florida Museum in the Mammal Division.
Sadie Hollrah
Undergratuate Museum Technician
Sadie Hollrah is an undergrad in the biology department, and this is her second year as a museum technician. She is passionate about ecology of all kinds and plans to pursue a master's degree in fire ecology.
Serenity Snider
Undergraduate Museum Technician
Serenity is a majoring in Biology and minoring in both Chemistry and Museum Studies. They enjoy the idea of evolutionary zoology, physiology, and endocrinology as potential research pathways, hoping to utilize museum collections throughout their career.
James Price-Gilchrist
Undergraduate Museum Technician
James is an undergraduate majoring in biology with a minor in chemistry. He joined MSB to gain practical experience working with animals and in museum collections.
Cyrus Romero
Undergraduate Museum Technician
Cyrus is an undergraduate biology student with an unwavering passion for all flora and fauna. He hopes to use his gained academic and museum experience to pursue a career in wildlife biology and eventually return to obtain his master's degree.
Kane Anaya
Undergraduate Museum Technician
Kane is an undergraduate student studying biology. He works in the Cook Molecular Evolution and Ecology Lab at UNM as an ASSURE scholar. He hopes to work in a wildlife field and is working at MSB to gain skills in museum collections.
Benito Pedroza
Undergraduate Museum Technician
Benito a third-year biology major. Upon graduation he hope to attend Vet School and become a veterinarian. He believes his time at the MSB will help to expand his anatomical knowledge.
Patricia Sotelo Chavira
Undergraduate Museum Technician
As a Biology major with a focus on ecology, Patricia is eager to jump into soil respiration studies in graduate school. Her work at the MSB has immersed her in the world of biology, offering invaluable insights into diverse research areas and deepening her passion for the field.
Olivia Cole
Remote Undergraduate Volunteer
Olivia is pursuing a BS in Anthropology with a concentration in Human Biology and a minor in Biology. She hopes to use the skills she learns from her classes and time at the MSB to pursue a graduate education in forensic anthropology.
Audrey Vanderhee
Undergraduate Volunteer
Audrey is an undergraduate biology student with an interest in wildlife biology and zoonotic diseases. Her time at the MSB has given her hands on experience and knowledge in her field and deepened her love for biology!
Trinity Swisher
Undergraduate Volunteer
Trinity is majoring in biology and minoring in Environmental Science. Her concentration is conservation, but she hopes to do some work in wildlife rehab. Driven to preserve biodiversity, she wants to gain knowledge to help with future research opportunities and work with mammals.
Sophia Aguilar
Undergraduate Volunteer
Sophia is currently studying to major in Biology to pursue her passion for working with animals, either in zoology or veterinary practices. She believes her involvement at the MSM will lead to even greater things for both the museum and her future!
Nhu "Mimi" Lam
Undergraduate Volunteer
Mimi is studying Biology with a minor in business management; she's always loved science and wants to pursue it as a career. Her love of research and animals brought her to the MSB, where she hopes to make a mark in mammalogy. After a gap year she plans to pursue a master's degree.
Gabby Gurule
Undergraduate Volunteer
Gabrielle is an undergraduate student studying biology at UNM to contribute to her future goal of becoming a veterinarian. She gained an interest in the work done at MSB during a trip with her Mammalogy class and is volunteering because of this.
Katie Rielage
High School Volunteer
Katie is a junior at Bosque School studying her favorite animal, North American porcupines, and learning radio-collaring capture procedures. She is interested in the MSB to gain skills needed to pursue a career in veterinary medicine and wildlife biology.
