Young environmentalist from Arlington headed to D.C.

Published 1:30 am Thursday, March 2, 2017

Kathryn Undercuffler, a student at Arlington High School, has been selected to serve as a National Youth Delegate to the 2017 Washington Youth Summit on the Environment at George Mason University.

She is one of eight teens from Washington state and 250 nationwide headed to Washington D.C. in June for an intensive, week-long leadership program in environmental science and conservation. National Geographic and the National Zoo also are partners in the program.

Kathryn and her fraternal twin sister Zoe are juniors at Arlington High School. They both are involved in Youth Dynamics and on the Neobots robotics team. Kathryn Undercuffler also plays upright bass in band.

Undercuffler’s goal is to become a mammalogist, studying the changing behavior patterns in large mammals from encroaching human populations and environmental shifts.

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