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Growing up, I was and still am today very interested in dates, calendars, and facts. This led me to naturally love history. I also really loved listening to my great-aunt and her stories about living in different locations and North Hibbing. The storytelling made me wonder about everyone else and where they came from, and with these places seemingly lost and unknown, I wanted to learn more about what once was. As I got more into researching, I realized that a lot of it existed; I just didn't know where to look for it right away. However, with this research, I found myself lost, as if it all existed all along; then I was done -- right? Throughout my journey, I had found a love for maps and had discovered the St. Louis County GIS website. It was then that I knew I wanted to make a map of North Hibbing just like it. So after creating my paper map towards the end of my eighth-grade year, I went on a journey to learn how to make a GIS map. While touring around with my map, selling it to different people, and donating copies to local educational services like the public library and museum, I went to the DNR Division of Land and Minerals to show my map. There I met Stacy Saari, who taught me a bit about it, fueling my interest. Life soon got busy, but I later interned there for a little bit in the Fall of 2025. Eventually, after talking with someone at an event at Washington Elementary about my wanna-be project, I finally locked in, as I had been saying this line for years, and people have told me adulting only gets worse when it comes to time. I stopped with the excuses, and on March 7, 2026, I watched a few videos and created the North Hibbing GIS Map through Arc Online, as it was free and I was broke. Whenever I could, I just grinded on the map; at school, at my summer job, in the car, everywhere. On my annual summer trip in August, I went to the cities with my parents. It was on that trip that we went to Stillwater, which had scannable QR codes and a map much similar to mine, and as my GIS map couldn't get its own domain name and being inspired by the idea of a website, I created it while on the trip. The website building was my least favorite part of the journey, as the WIX website builder was very slow and laggy, so there are three pages, and the rest is Google Docs, as anyone, regardless of whether you have a Google account, can access it. I then started making a new layer on my map in mid-October called the 1910 Ethnicities map, which is still under construction. 

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Besides research, I am currently a senior at Hibbing High School involved in activities like serving as the Lieutenant Governor for the Key Club, Co-Captain of the Speech team, Orchestra, and most Band events. After high school, I plan on attending the University of Minnesota-Duluth to become a Social Studies Teacher so I can spread my love of history to others. 

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Outside of school, I love playing the piano and the organ, hanging out with my nine cats and my dog, playing the occasional Roblox game with my friends while at McDonald's, and walking around, exploring the outside world.