Sarah Steele Cabrera

Bio: Sarah Steele Cabrera is a PhD student at the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity at the University of Florida. Sarah grew up in Rhode Island, where she discovered a love of nature exploring nearby oak forests and freshwater swamps. She earned a B.A. in Biology and Environmental Science from Brandeis University in 2013 and a M.S. in Entomology from the University of Florida in 2020. She has spent the past six years researching rare and endangered butterflies in the Florida Keys, but has also conducted biological fieldwork in Costa Rica, Massachusetts, St. Croix, New Mexico, and throughout Florida.