Miriam grew up on the East Coast and holds a biology degree from the University of Chicago. Her natural resources career began when she moved to California for a marketing position, started volunteering at Point Reyes on the weekends, and then fell so in love with the ecology and wildness of this place that she decided to pull a big career switcheroo. Since her first role at Point Reyes in 2019 she has worked in almost every corner of the park while growing her knowledge of Bay Area flora. In her current role at PRNSA she monitors threatened and endangered species, surveys and removes invasive ones, maps them all in GIS, and trains seasonal technicians to do the same. You can most often find her roaming the Abbotts lagoon dunes getting sand in her boots or bushwhacking in the wilderness of the Woodward Fire burn area, covered in ash.
