Katie Leung
Senior Volunteer and Outreach Coordinator
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Katie is Riverkeeper's Senior Volunteer and Outreach Coordinator. Prior to joining Riverkeeper, she was a field technician with NYC Parks’ Wildlife Unit in which she led a raptor nest monitoring project to study urban raptor nesting behavior and help NYC agencies make informed decisions on rodent management. She also led a community science program to document the nest locations, nesting milestones, and breeding behaviors of raptors. She graduated from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in 2014 with a B.S. degree in Conservation Biology and centered her interests around wildlife conservation. She also earned an M.A. in Biology in the Advanced Inquiry Program at Miami University in 2022. She took her classes through WCS-Bronx Zoo as her academic institution in New York and focused her graduate master plan on plastic pollution in NYC. She is constantly learning that all environmental and conservation issues are interconnected and aims to involve as many people as possible to become environmental stewards and address these issues.
Articles by Katie Leung
June 11, 2024
13th annual Riverkeeper Sweep: May the Fourth was with us!
Katie Leung
Event recap
June 5, 2023
12th Annual Riverkeeper Sweep: Incredible results from our May 6 day of service
31 tons of debris cleaned from hundreds of miles of shoreline in NYC and the Hudson Valley.
Katie Leung
Event recap
June 9, 2022
11th Annual Riverkeeper Sweep results: Rain couldn’t stop 1,100+ volunteers
Despite the cold temperatures and pouring rain in some locales, more than 1,100 volunteers participated in the Hudson River’s largest annual shoreline cleanup on Saturday, May 7, 2022.
Katie Leung
Event recap