Category: Youth Advisory Board

Winslow Township High School
Sicklerville, NJ

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Alyssa Evringham is a student at Winslow High School in Sicklerville, New Jersey. She is from Sicklerville, New Jersey. She attended the Washington Youth Summit on the Environment in 2016. Alyssa decided to go to WYSE because she has always loved the environment and wanted to be a marine biologist after college. WYSE was an incredible experience for her and she cannot wait to share this experience with others.

Castle View High School
Castle Rock, CO

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Hi, my name is Jason Dallman I am from Colorado in a town called Sedalia, and I also live on a farm. I am big into the environment, it is all around me. I have two mules and two dogs. My mom is an environmental teacher at my school.

Our Lady of Good Counsel
Olney, MD

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Katherine-Aria “Kat” Close is a junior at Our Lady of Good Counsel in Olney, Maryland and is in the IB program. She has a love of animals, particularly horses, which has extended to caring about the loss of habitats and a concern for the overall health of our planet. In middle school, she was a member of the school’s Green Club. Her 8th grade social studies class focused on human interactions with the environment and the interrelation between human populations and geography. Currently, Kat is taking an interdisciplinary environmental science class which she finds engaging. A few times this year, she is responsible for recycling her high school’s paper. In her free time, Katherine loves art and creative writing. She is Co-President of her school’s Creative Writing Club and Vice President of the school’s National Art Honors Society, which she helped establish. Her weekends are spent horse riding and helping to care for the horses of the Montgomery County Mounted Unit of the National Capital Area Park Police. Here her love of horses and the environment are merged. Kat also enjoys spending time with her friends and her family; she lives with her parents, sister, and two cats in Montgomery County, Maryland.

Walker Valley High School
Cleveland, TN

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Savannah Churlik is a senior at Walker Valley High School in Cleveland, TN and a WYSE 2016 alumna. She is an officer in her school’s FFA chapter, a member of STEM leadership team, and on the executive committee for her school’s drama club. She is also the backstage manager for the drama club’s theatrical productions. Savannah is on a competitive swim league where she spends her summers mentoring the younger swimmers. Savannah has dreams of going to North Carolina State University after graduation to pursue a degree in Veterinary Medicine, in hopes of becoming a veterinarian at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute.