Hilary is a Fisheries Biologist for NOAA Fisheries. She is working to recover threatened and endangered salmon and sturgeon with the San Joaquin River Restoration Program. She is passionate about education, outreach, and scientific communication and seeks to bring a salmon culture to the Central Valley of California through collaborative projects and partnerships. Hilary graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz with a B.S. in Marine Biology and Louisiana State University with an M.S. in Oceanography. Hilary has two young children, loves to be outdoors with her family, has a travel bucket list a mile long, watches superhero movies, reads books by Brandon Sanderson and Sarah Maas, and is mostly winging it in the kitchen but it seems to work out.