Leader Details

Lara Tseng Lara Tseng is 16 years old and in her junior year of college through the Early Entrance Program at Cal State LA, where she is majoring in biology and minoring in bioinformatics. After college, she hopes to go to graduate school to study evolutionary genomics and pursue a career in ornithology. Lara is especially interested in studying a circumpolar breeding shorebird, the dunlin, and the complex variation seen across its many subspecies. Previously, she has published research on calcium consumption in western bluebirds. Lara is also an active member of various young birder groups and is a member of the student programs committee at Western Field Ornithologists.