Megan Ferris

Megan Ferris is a senior from Danbury, CT majoring in Environmental Science with a concentration in global change and a minor in Animal Science. Over the past two summers, she has interned at Woodcock Nature Center as an Environmental Educator where she implemented environmental lessons, facilitated hands-on nature-themed activities, and encouraged children to connect with their natural surroundings. She also volunteered in the Bagchi lab on the FEN project studying forest fragmentation on invasive Gypsy Moths in Connecticut forests. At UConn, she is the Vice-President of the UConn Wildlife Society, and in her free time loves to hike, hammock, read, and swim. She is very interested in environmental justice, policy, and education and is looking forward to hearing how different nations are taking action against climate change. She hopes to implement what she learns at COP25 in her own life by teaching her communities what other nations have done in response to the climate emergency and by opening conversations in order to make all people more aware of the urgent issues at stake.