![]() 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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