Guinevere Drabik

Guinevere is a parasitologist who spent her undergraduate degree studying biological sciences and researching new species of parasites at the Harold W. Manter Laboratory at the University of Nebraska Lincoln. She then earned a Master’s in Zoology focusing on parasite systematics and developing her hiking career in Southern Illinois.

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