Kera Smith Zegar
UW Honors Graduates
Kera Smith Zegar

Environmental Studies
Designation: Departmental Honors
Honors Grads 2019/2020
Proudest Moment: Being apart of the Student Employee Leadership Board and representing UWild Adventures.
Thesis: Human-Wildlife Conflict in the Peruvian Amazon: How Community Engagement Can Change Wildlife Conservation
I always tell everyone that I joined PoE for the field trips. Everyone who knows me knows that what really drew me to Environmental Studies is my love of outdoor spaces. My time at UW has allowed me to a gain greater understanding of what privileges I have that allowed this love affair. The adventures I've had so far taught me that it is an opportunity to struggle and to pick myself back up both indoors and out. The accomplishments I'm most proud of are not those on paper but the impact I worked so hard to make on the people I worked for, young people, and my peers.