Victoria Dunch, M.A.

Victoria Dunch serves San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance as a Research Coordinator in Community Engagement. In this role, she helps teach conservation science to the middle and high school students who come through our Conservation Education Lab in the fall and spring. During the fall, she also acts as a facilitator for the Advanced Inquiry Program. During the spring and summer, she prepares and manages our Teacher Workshops in Conservation Science, a Program of the Munitz Academy for the Teaching of Science, and with the rest of the team, engages science teachers from across the country and world.

Victoria helps to keep the Conservation Education Lab up and running, and also works on revising our conservation education modules in order to keep them as current as possible. Victoria regularly interacts with scientists in other labs so that she can interpret their work to our student and teacher program participants, and provide informational tours of the Beckman Center to visitors.

Victoria previously worked as a fundraiser for San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance. Victoria earned her bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science and Policy from Smith College, with a minor in Marine Science, and her master’s degree in Biology through the Advanced Inquiry Program. She has interned with two NOAA facilities in South Carolina and Mississippi, and spent a summer teaching a marine science camp in San Pedro, Belize. She has also interned at the Birch Aquarium at Scripps through their summer camp programs, and worked as a volunteer on whale watches. Victoria currently volunteers in her community by helping to put on events like the RB Earth Day fair with the Rancho Bernardo Community Council.