Victoria is a PhD candidate in the Molecular and Cell Biology Program at UC Berkeley. She completed her undergraduate degree in Biology at the George Washington University in 2016. Before starting graduate school, she was a research technician at Stanford University in the lab of Dr. David Schneider where she studied the impact of genetic diversity on disease outcome in the context of malaria infections. Currently, she is a member of the Portnoy lab where she studies how the foodborne bacterial pathogen Listeria monocytogenes disseminates from the intestines of its hosts towards their brain. Besides research, she enjoys spending time outdoors hiking and camping in the summer and skiing in the winter.