Adrianna Celtruda

Undergraduate Summer Intern (2024)

Adrianna Celtruda is an intern in the Agroecology Lab over the summer of 2024 working on the Alternative Crops and Renewable Energy (ACRE) project. She is an undergraduate at the George Washington University in Washington DC where she studies environmental science and geographic information systems. She is passionate about climate adaptation strategies, sustainable food systems, and ecology. Her favorite part of the ACRE project is the opportunity to support local farmers affected by climate change and systemic issues while creating a closed-loop system.

Outside of the lab, she works as the manager of her university’s community garden, which practices organic and permaculture farming. In the long term, she hopes to continue contributing to agricultural research and eventually have her own sheep farm. When not working outside, she relaxes by reading books and making wheel-thrown ceramics. This summer, she is looking forward to spending time in the cornfields and enhancing her lab skills to better understand the changing biochemical processes impacting ecosystems and communities as a result of saltwater intrusion.