I am a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and a second-year PhD student in the UCLA Ecology & Evolutionary Biology program in Dr. Pamela Yeh's Lab. I graduated from UC Berkeley with a BA in Integrative Biology in 2024. 

I study bird ecology and evolution in the Anthropocene. I am currently researching Dark-eyed Junco morphology, behavior, and evolution in urban environments.

Feel free to contact me at sierraru@ucla.edu!