A native of southwest Michigan, Shauna obtained her B.A. in chemistry from Albion College. While there, she worked with Prof. Andrew N. French on the development of chiral hypervalent iodine catalysts for enantioselective α-oxytosylation and on the synthesis of dibenziodonium salts, research that was performed both at Albion College as well as with Prof. Thomas Wirth at Cardiff University (Albion College FURSCA Fellow) and Prof. Bernhard Witulski at Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz (DAAD ACS-RISE Scholar). She pursued her graduate studies in the group of Prof. M. Christina White at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a NSF Predoctoral Fellow. Her Ph.D. research focused on pioneering the development of site- and chemoselective iron- and manganese-catalyzed C(sp³)─H amination reactions. Shauna's research next led her to Prof. Eric N. Jacobsen's lab at Harvard University, where she served as a NIH Postdoctoral Fellow. Her research there entailed the use of co-catalytic activation strategies with chiral dual hydrogen bond donor catalysts for the development of efficient chemo- and enantioselective methods to prepare valuable amine-containing synthetic intermediates. She will begin her independent career in July 2018 at the University of Rochester, where her research group will utilize transition metal catalysis to pursue novel strategies for the generation of C-C bonds, with the goal of enabling the selective construction of sp3-rich organic scaffolds.