Elizabeth "Eli" Everest-Rotary Club of International Exchange Coordinator

Eli Everest was a Rotary Youth Exchange Student from District 5190 to District 3340 in Thailand in 2014.

In 2019, as an undergraduate in the Department of Biology, College of Science, UNR, she received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to work in Cambodia with the Wonders of the Mekong Project to assist local organizations in gathering fish population data.

Eli is currently a researcher and graduate student at UNR, specializing in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology, with experience in Southeast Asian fisheries management.  She is a Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) graduate who has worked on international fish collection projects and received recognition for her research on Cambodia's Mekong River.   Eli's advisory team is headed by Dr. Zeb Hogan and Dr. Sudeep Chandra at UNR.

2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the Rotary Youth Exchange program.