Kara Ingraham graduated with a BS in Biodiversity and Conservation Biology from University of Maryland in 2013. She has been an animal keeper at the zoo’s Small Mammal House since 2014, where she cares for a variety of primates, rodents, and small carnivores including endangered Black Footed Ferrets. In summer 2017, she traveled to Wyoming to assist with nighttime population surveys of re-introduced wild ferret populations.