Karleisa Rogacheski

I recently joined the Innovative Weather team in August 2012. I'm looking forward to graduation in May 2014. After graduation I plan on going to graduate school to hopefully study severe weather or tropical weather. I am, however, keeping my books open for other potential studies. As a child I'd always watched the local news with my family and idolized the meteorologists. I began studying pre-medicine at Concordia University, but after taking an Introduction to Meteorology course with Mark Baden from WISN, I was convinced that I should take it on as a major. I soon started taking math courses at Concordia University and eventually transferred over to UW–Milwaukee in the summer of 2011. I decided against UW–Madison because of its large size in the program, and after meeting with faculty from UWM and Iowa State, I decided to go with UW–Milwaukee because of class sizes and tuition rates.