Christian Braswell

Christian Braswell is a native to Lawrence County, Alabama where he grew up in rural Danville, an area full of forests, pastures, and streams that gave him a passion for biology and conservation. He obtained his bachelor's degree in biology from the University of West Alabama in Livingston in 2020, doing field work collecting and cataloguing specimens for the UWA zoological collection and caring for the educational outreach animals. During this time, he also volunteered with the Black Belt Museum to prepare dinosaur bone casts for display and excavate fossils of Cretaceous marine reptiles. He went on to get his master’s degree in biological sciences from Jacksonville State University in 2024 while doing a thesis on environmental DNA sampling for Alabama’s Wood Frogs (Lithobates sylvaticus). Christian became an educator at the JSU Field School to teach people about the values of conservation and the natural world, and what we can do to protect and preserve it for the future. Some of his favorite passions include talking about dinosaurs and fossils, herpetology, and doing science-related art projects.