Emma Baker

Emma Baker grew up in West Liberty, Iowa, and graduated from Creighton University in 2019 with a B.S. in Biology and Spanish with a minor in Sustainability. While she was at Creighton, she had the opportunity to work in a research lab where she spent two summers hand pollinating flowers of Stuckenia pectinata to try and understand more about the reproductive processes that occur in aquatic plants. Pollination is just as important in agricultural research, even if it does serve a much different research purpose. She was drawn to TLI because of its interdisciplinary focus on looking toward nature to find solutions to the tough environmental problems that our current agricultural system leaves us with.