Liv teaches science at Pullman High School in the beautiful Palouse region of Eastern Washington, where she is in her sixth year of teaching. She loves teaching biology because it is all about patterns, connections, and intricately complicated understandings. There often aren’t straightforward “answers” to complex questions, and she loves building lessons where students are challenged to think deeply.

Before becoming a science teacher, Liv had a wide range of experiences working in biological research. During her undergraduate at the University of North Carolina she studied soil microbial ecosystems in old growth rainforests in Costa Rica. She also worked for the Eastern Nevada Landscape Coalition surveying rangelands recovering post-wildfire. Additionally, she completed a research internship at the Archbold Biological Station in Venus, Florida, where she worked in the Plant Ecology Lab and conducted a study on wiregrass (Aristida stricta) regrowth after prescribed burns.

When she’s not in the classroom, Liv loves reading, cooking, playing tennis, and spending time with her husband and their almost one year old daughter.