Jenna is from St.Charles, IL ( just outside the city of Chicago) and is currently working on her Masters in Marine Science at Hawaii Pacific University under the advisement of Dr. Keith Korsmeyer. She earned Bachelors degrees in both Marine Biology and Environmental Studies from Florida Southern College in 2017. Jenna now works as a graduate assistant at the Center for Marine Debris Research, and assists with various projects related to marine plastic. Her focus in the lab is on ingestion of plastics my larval fish and methods associated with plastic extraction from animal tissue.