Selena is a project assistant for the University of California Sea Grant program where she is working on a variety of projects relating to managing data-poor fisheries. She graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2003 where she majored in Marine Biology and was involved in several research projects including subtidal monitoring for the Partnership of Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans (PISCO). After completing her undergraduate degree, she continued her work with PISCO as a subtidal technician until 2006. In the fall of 2004, Selena entered the masters program at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories and held a position as a Graduate Student Researcher on a NSF grant awarded to Mike Graham and Jay Stachowicz from 2006 to 2008. For her thesis project, she examined the effects of the subtidal snail Chlorostoma brunnea, on the giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera. Selena plans to defend her thesis Spring of 2009.