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“When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy Internship Program began in 2006. Below you can meet our current and past interns.

2008 Interns
Kate Gentry	Kate is currently enrolled in undergraduate classes at Northern Virginia Community College. She plans to transfer to Virginia Tech into their Wildlife Sciences Program in her sophomore year. Her long term goal is to obtain a Master’s degree in vertebrate-zoology and minor in botany.
Joey Villaria	Joey is currently enrolled in Northern Virginia Community College pursuing a major in wildlife biology and a minor in writing. He has strong interests in tracking wildlife and making plaster casts of different species tracks that he finds. He enjoys setting up Wildlife camera traps to study what animals utilize habitats and when and began studying wildlife photography. He likes to volunteer and has been actively involved in three no-kill animal shelters.
Past Interns
2007
Molly Darr	A Loudoun County native, Molly Darr was raised in Lovettsville, Virginia. Molly attended Loudoun Valley High school where she got her first taste of working in the outdoors through an Environmental Exploration class where she took frequent visits to Banshee Reeks and other surrounding conservancies. Ms. Darr now attends Virginia Tech and is majoring in Wildlife Science. She participates in stream monitoring, salamander and black bear data collection, and camera trapping. She is active in the Virginia Tech chapters of the Wildlife Society, Environmental Coalition, and Recreation Society.
Emily Bzdyk	Emily Bzdyk was born in Long Island, NY and moved to Loudoun County when she was young, growing up in Round Hill. As a young child, she became involved with the LWC stream monitoring program, eventually becoming captain of her team, and has been hooked on environmental issues ever since. Emily attended Loudoun Valley High school, where she developed a strong interest in biology, and is now attending St. Mary’s College of Maryland where she is majoring in Biology, with minors in Environmental Studies and Art. She is a member of the Environmental Action Coalition and volunteers with the St. Mary’s River Project to monitor the local watershed. Emily has always enjoyed the outdoors growing up in our beautiful county. As Loudoun changes, she feels strongly about teaching people to maintain their ties with nature.
2006
Rachelle Hill	Rachelle was Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy's first intern. *A few words from Rachelle:* "As an intern at Loudoun Wildlife I was able to see so many different dimensions that the environmental community has to offer. Unlike other opportunities, Loudoun Wildlife was not only in my hometown, but also gave me a diverse skill set that I would not otherwise have possessed. From helping to set up an amphibian monitoring program (LAMP), to participating in various forms of public outreach I was able to see how grass roots environmental groups can make a difference in their communities and have a lasting impact. There is such a wide variety that goes on, and I never spent my summer doing solely one or two things. Today I am finishing up my BS in Environmental Science-aquatic resources at Virginia Tech and to this day what I did with LWC I would have never been able to do in any of my classrooms. I learned many things while with Loudoun Wildlife, but I also found a community of caring individuals willing to not only teach but learn."