Hayley Robinson is from Ringgold, GA and is currently a Masters student in the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources at the University of Georgia. She has grown up in the mountains of north Georgia and Tennessee and has a passion for freshwater ecology and conservation. She has had past assistantships and tech positions with the Tennessee Aquarium Conservation Institute, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, and Georgia Southern University. Her current research at UGA focuses on using genetics to assess freshwater mussel and fish host relationships in the Flint River (GA).