
Caroline is a Ph.D. Candidate and NSF GRFP Fellow at Columbia University in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, where she studies how climate change is leading to larger forest fires in the western United States, using remote sensing and big datasets. She is motivated by her passion to increase access to opportunities in STEM and dedicates her free time to mentoring students and volunteering for outreach and diversity initiatives in the aerospace and Earth science communities. She leads the Brooke Owens Fellowship as part of the Executive Team, a nonprofit program that matches young women and other gender minority undergraduate students with competitive aerospace company internships and mentorship annually. She is also a Steering Committee member of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Geosciences (AAPIiG), and co-founded SpaceInterns.org (a platform for aerospace-related resources and an opportunities database). She received her Bachelors of Arts in Earth and Planetary Sciences from Harvard University.