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Emily Ellithorpe

EMILY ELLITHORPE

Junior Faculty Advisor

Emily Ellithorpe is originally from Massachusetts and attended WYSE in 2017 as a delegate and in 2018 as an intern. This fall she will be sophomore at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY ESF) with a major in Environmental Resources Engineering. She plans to focus on water quality and stormwater management, but also has an interest in green infrastructure. On campus, Emily is involved in Engineers Without Borders, The New York Water Environment Association, Eco-Reps and is a member of the Woodsmen Team. Outside of school she likes to spend time outdoors, travel, and make photo books/videos from her trips.

Natalie Northrup

Natalie Northrup is a senior at Honeoye Falls-Lima High School, and the environment and its protection is her passion. She enjoys laying in hammocks reading anything from Into the Wild to Freakonomics, and she is often found biking, hiking and skiing cross-country. She is on my school’s swim team and Nordic skiing team, and connections from those teams have helped her start an environmental education club at her high school called The Eco-Geeks. The club helps educate students K-5 and has implemented composting and recycling in their cafeterias. Natalie’s environmental interests include engineering with an energy technology focus, and policy. She has been working in this field as a board member of a local festival and through collaborating with the Mayor to design a curbside composting system. Natalie cannot wait to help make WYSE 2018 as fantastic as WYSE 2017!

Veronica Paul

Veronica Paul is a senior in high school. She is on her high school’s Varsity Cheer team and is the Founder and President of her school’s Environmental Club. She helped organized her community’s March for Science and  annual Earth Day cleanups, and she is working on making the first garden for her school. Veronica loves to travel and has been in nearly every state as well as all over Europe.Her favorite trips include Paris and Olympic National Park. She also bakes sweets and write, and she has published works at her school. She plans to pursue a degree in Environmental Science focused on Marine Biology, as well as Premed in preparation of becoming a Pediatrician. Veronica loves doing things that positively benefit the environment and that inspire others to do the same. WYSE has taught her that everyone’s voice matters and that every action we do towards bettering the Environment is better than nothing. Don’t give up on your dreams and don’t let others stand in the way of what you want!

Rebecca Speer

Rebecca Speer is a junior at Upper St. Clair High School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She hopes to pursue a career in Environmental Law. She especially hopes to pursue the issue of water quality after listening to a presentation on wetlands and their impact on the water quality and speaking with her district congressman’s and state senator’s views on the issue of water quality within her hometown. She enjoys playing lacrosse, acting, and performing in her high school band in her free time. She is very excited to be on the Youth Advisory Board for WYSE 2018 and hopes to make the next generation of WYSE delegates experience as wonderful as her own! She urges students to participate in the summit not only for the wonderful experience it gives to students who are passionate about environmental issues but also for the opportunity to meet wonderful people from different parts of the United States!

Taylor Rutter

Conference Intern

Taylor Rutter is a Junior at White Oak High School in Jacksonville, North Carolina. She is a member of many organizations, including Music Honor Society, Math Honor Society, Interact, Photography Club, and FCA. She is also the Vice President of Green Team, which is an environmental awareness organization and one of the largest student led groups on campus. During her free time, Taylor enjoys playing the french horn, reading, writing, and spending as much time as possible riding horses and being at the barn. WYSE helped Taylor find the path she wants to take after high school, which is going to college to study in environmental science and education.

Hannah Luk

Hannah Luk is an advocate for the conservation of our natural resources. In the fall of 2018, she will start pursuing a career in marine sciences and working for the protection of our oceans. Hannah loves to explore national parks and anywhere she can to gain new perspectives on our environment and push people to spend time enjoying our beautiful planet!

Katie Mills

Katie Mills hopes to dedicate her life to helping wildlife thrive. She plans to attend college and major in animal behavior and biology in order to help animals stay safe from endangerment or extinction. Katie loves the environment and planet, and WYSE is what has inspired her to follow her chosen career path.

Dr. Katheryn Patterson

Foreign Affairs Specialist, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Dr. Katheryn Patterson is a Foreign Affairs Specialist with the NOAA Office of Law Enforcement whose work focuses on combating illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing through management and enforcement efforts, international engagement, and technical and capacity building assistance. She is also an accomplished marine ecologist whose previous research focused on topics related to coral reef disease mitigation, marine protected areas, and marine tourism. Dr. Patterson first became interested in marine policy while representing a non-profit during her first stakeholder meeting on a proposed marine protected area in Belize. Four years later, the Belizean Government established the Turneffe Atoll Marine Reserve. Knowing that her scientific findings influenced a policy was incredibly exciting and became a driving force for her desire to be involved in effecting change.

Dr. Patterson is a 2016 Sea Grant Knauss Marine Policy Fellow alumnae and holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Public Policy from George Mason University.

Dr. Joris van der Ham

Adjunct Professor, George Mason University

Dr. van der Ham is an environmental scientist with general interests in community dynamics, marine and estuarine ecology, and invertebrate ecology. Specifically, he is interested in how biological communities change over spatial and temporal scales, and how they respond to and recover from environmental disturbances. Heemploys experimental approaches, field studies, and long-term monitoring data to investigate the community dynamics and its significance within its ecosystem.

Craig Saffoe

CRAIG SAFFOE

Large Carnivore Curator, Smithsonian National Zoo

As the Curator of Large Carnivores (and Kids’ Farm) at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo, Craig Saffoe is responsible for the overall care and management of 18 species and more than 50 individual animals.  He works with a team of animal keepers to not only care for, but facilitate breeding with most of the Zoo’s large carnivores – which includes one of the most critically endangered species (Sumatran tigers) managed at the National Zoological Park. Craig started his career as an intern in 1994 and worked his way up to Animal Keeper, Biologist and now Curator. In that time, he has been a part of many successful teams including the team that managed, bred and successfully produced the first two cheetah litters ever born at the Smithsonian. Craig now leads a team that has been incredibly successful at breeding large carnivores – boasting multiple successful litters of lions and tigers and yes bears….Oh my!