Coco grew up in Nashville, Tennessee. Coco majored in Neuroscience at UVA. In the Lukens lab, she worked with Hannah Ennerfelt studying the microglial response to Alzheimer’s Disease, with a specific focus on CLEC7a. She was also a distance runner on UVA’s Cross Country and Track team. In her free time, she enjoys reading and hiking. Coco is now an PhD student in the Immunology Graduate Program at Harvard University.