Teodelina Martelli attended her first WFO conference at 13 and is proud to serve on the board as chair of the Student Programs Committee a decade on. She is an interdisciplinary ornithologist and Fulbright Scholar passionate about birds and people, in 2025 traveling through Chile to write about Andean Condor conservation. She graduated from Pomona College with theses in avian sensory evolution and bird representation in Classical antiquity. She is particularly interested in the mechanics of migration, sexual selection, and the evolution of avian learning and perception. Teodelina is a UC-certified California Naturalist and the 2018 ABA Young Birder of the Year.