Spring 2013 TEMPO - Tampa Preparatory School

14changemakerstempo spring 2013Changemakerssusannah smith ’87 at the site of the python challenge, big cypress national preserve in the florida everglades.Susannah takes the Python ChallengeMany years after her college graduationfrom Tulane University where shemajored in Anthropology, SusannahWilson Smith ’87 returned to college toget a master’s degree. Working for severalyears as a zoo educator and mediaspokesperson for Busch Gardens, sheknew a lot about wildlife and the media.Part of her work for Busch Gardensincluded traveling with exotic animals tobe interviewed by television personalities.In grad school she chose a major in MassCommunications.She is currently Vice President of theBoard of Directors of the WildlandsNetwork, an organization that mappedfour Continental Wildways, large protectedcorridors of land running coast tocoast, and north to south throughoutCanada, the U.S. and Mexico. She is thehost, reporter, producer and videographerof “Susannah’s Scoop,” an online newsshow for Wildlands Network’s TrekEast.