Dakota obtained his B.S. in chemistry from Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah) in 2021, where he worked on optimizing microwave-promoted iminyl radical cascade reactions to be used as steps in the synthesis of natural products. In the fall of 2021 he joined Professor Kim R. Dunbar’s research group at Texas A&M University. His main research objective for his PhD work has been to design multimetallic coordination complexes with long-range magnetic coupling between transition metal centers using thiolate or organic nitrile bridging ligands.