Gen Z and Animal Behavior
Sydney Polinchock
Student, Environmental Change-Agent & Speaker
Sydney Polinchock (she/her/hers) is an undergraduate student in the Class of ’23 at Bucknell University where she is completing a double major in Animal Behavior and Education.
On campus, she is part of Bucknell's student primate training team, which uses positive reinforcement to train capuchins and squirrel monkeys. Off campus, she is the co-leader of the Sunrise Movement's Lewisburg Hub, which seeks to stop climate change while creating new jobs.
Sydney has spoken on Gen Z, her generation, around the world with her dad, technology futurist David Polinchock, and her friends, Luke Hunter and William Goodall. She started attending her dad’s conferences when she was 4 years old and has accompanied and spoken with him ever since.
Most recently, she spoke at Retail Tech Week in London. Past speaking engagements include: The Pulpit conference in Stavanger, Norway, the Media Forum conference in Oslo, KIS Digital Week in Puerto Rico, the NY Daily News Innovation Lab in New York City, and at South By South West in 2015. The panel she was on at SXSW, “Conversations with Digital Natives: Teens Talk” was quoted 5 times in SXSW’s list of top 50 quotes.
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Sydney Polinchock (she/her/hers) is an undergraduate student in the Class of ’23 at Bucknell University where she is completing a double major in Animal Behavior and Education.
On campus, she is part of Bucknell's student primate training team, which uses positive reinforcement to train capuchins and squirrel monkeys. Off campus, she is the co-leader of the Sunrise Movement's Lewisburg Hub, which seeks to stop climate change while creating new jobs.
Sydney has spoken on Gen Z, her generation, around the world with her dad, technology futurist David Polinchock, and her friends, Luke Hunter and William Goodall. She started attending her dad’s conferences when she was 4 years old and has accompanied and spoken with him ever since.
Most recently, she spoke at Retail Tech Week in London. Past speaking engagements include: The Pulpit conference in Stavanger, Norway, the Media Forum conference in Oslo, KIS Digital Week in Puerto Rico, the NY Daily News Innovation Lab in New York City, and at South By South West in 2015. The panel she was on at SXSW, “Conversations with Digital Natives: Teens Talk” was quoted 5 times in SXSW’s list of top 50 quotes.
