Fiona McCann (she/her/hers) is a second year graduate student in the Applied Math PhD program at the University of Arizona. She received her Bachelor's in Science in Applied Math with a secondary major in Psychology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is interested in new ways that math modeling can affect current research within psychology/psychiatry, biology, and ecology. With past research in modeling bipolar disorder, empathy, and cannibalism, Fiona's current research regards population dynamics via a novel approach for the lottery model.