Stephen Taglieri is an alumni of the Washington Youth Summit on the Environment. He was a delegate in 2017. He recently just graduated from George Mason University with his undergraduate degree in Biology with a concentration in conservation and environmental biology. He is focused on conservation communications, working in environmental photojournalism. Stephen has worked for the IUCN’s Reverse the Red Campaign as well as the Smithsonian’s Conservation Ecology Center to write articles about conservation success and environmental optimism. Currently, he is a private contractor writing conservation success stories and freelancing to photography on the ground environmentalist efforts.