This week's episode features Madison Toonder, a rising junior at Vanderbilt University with a primary major in Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology and a secondary major in Biological Anthropology (Environment, Landscape) on a pre-veterinary track. She spends her summers in south Florida to engage in fieldwork and data collection as a Sea Turtle Night Technician. At age 18, Madison published her sea turtle research as primary author in the peer-reviewed Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine. She was also recognized as the youngest presenter in the 67-year history of the International Wildlife Disease Association Conference and served as a Sea Youth Rise Up delegate in Washington DC where she met with political leaders and led the World Ocean’s Day march. Currently, she is a member of the Earth Echo International Youth Leadership Council and coordinates large-scale events targeted toward schools across the nation.
To follow along on Maddie's journey check her out on Instagram. To find out more about Seas of Change visit us our website or Instagram here. To see what our founder, Steph, is up to check out her page too :)
