Makenna is a graduate student currently pursuing her M.A. in the Department of Anthropology at UF. She received her B.A. in Anthropology from the University of North Florida. Makenna’s research interests include zooarchaeology and human-animal relations, particularly through a lens of social zooarchaeology. Her master’s research focuses on Indigenous human-animal relations and environmental contexts at the Southeast Florida site of Jupiter Inlet I. Makenna plans to continue on to her Ph.D. at UF after completing her M.A.