in Biology and a minor in Education at Stanford University. Prior to coming to Tufts, she spent her undergraduate summers learning about different perspectives in conservation and experiencing first-hand how she could contribute to the conservation field. Daria worked at the New England Wildlife Rehabilitation Center, helping orphaned and injured wildlife recover and return to the wild. She also volunteered with Wildlife & Ecological Investments, a research group in South Africa, to help with biodiversity monitoring at a small game reserve in Kruger National Park. Daria participated in a summer research fellowship at the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research helping with the captive breeding and rehabilitation of the Pacific Pocket Mouse, which solidified her desire to go into applied conservation research. Prior to coming to Tufts for graduate school, she took a gap year to work at a non-profit in the San Francisco Bay Area called Grassroots Ecology where she led habitat restoration projects and field trips about how creek pollution affects benthic macro-invertebrate communities. This is where Daria found her love for environmental outreach and education. At Tufts, Daria is a teaching assistant for the Marine Biology class and is part of ERGO, the Ecology Reading Group at Tufts. When asked what she found most meaningful about her field of study, Daria responded with the following: “What I love about ecology is seeing how interconnected everything is. Studying and communicating how climate change is impacting our local ecosystems is especially important to me because it allows people to see the changes that are happening in their own neighborhoods, parks, and beaches.” People often forget that humans are a part of ecosystems too and that our actions affect other organisms just as their wellbeing and behavior affect us.
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