About Me

My name is Kayla Smith and I'm a sophomore at UCSB. I'm a full time environmental science major, work for Starbucks 20-30 hours a week, and do an internship with an organization called Your Children's Trees. At this internship we plant trees every Saturday morning on UCSB's Coal Oil Point reserve and go to science nights at local elementary schools to teach children about trees. The environment is my passion and I plan to have a career in which I impact international environmental policy with the United Nations Environmental Program. This love for the environment can be seen in many aspects of my life, more recently my trip to Ecuador where I did reforestation in Bahia de Caraquez and San Clemente over spring break. I'm always trying to find more reasons to be outside, and therefore have grown to love hobbies such as hiking, surfing, swimming, and long distance running as well as doing oil paintings of the environment, more specifically sunsets. I find nature to be the most beautiful and love to depict it in my art. In my life my main goal is to help the environment recover and set up methods that will continue to improve its health and protect it long after I am gone. I am also a very family oriented person and make sure that no matter what is going in my work or school life that I am there if needed. Family, work, school, and my passion for the environment are key components to who I am.