Sonia DeYoung

Assistant Director, Field Naturalist Program

Exhibits & Outreach Coordinator, Natural History Collections

PRONUNCIATION rhymes with Begonia

PRONOUNS she/her

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Pronunciation rhymes with Begonia
Pronouns she/her
Alma mater(s)
  • M.S., Field Naturalist Program, University of Vermont, 2017
  • B.A., History of Science / Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard College, 2010

BIO

Within the Field Naturalist Program, Sonia leads the first-year discussion seminar and loves to provoke her students into lively debate with controversial ideas in the field of conservation. She helps to keep the master's program running and offers students a listening ear. Elsewhere at UVM, she works for the Proctor Maple Research Center and the Natural History Collections. Outdoors, she enjoys birding by ear.

Bio

Within the Field Naturalist Program, Sonia leads the first-year discussion seminar and loves to provoke her students into lively debate with controversial ideas in the field of conservation. She helps to keep the master's program running and offers students a listening ear. Elsewhere at UVM, she works for the Proctor Maple Research Center and the Natural History Collections. Outdoors, she enjoys birding by ear.