Katya Zakar is a biomedical engineering and visual arts senior who cites her Kazakh and Armenian roots as a major inspiration for her work as a photographer. Katya has been a Student Media urchin since 2022, where she has worked as a RadioUTD DJ and is now Photo Editor at The Mercury. If she isn’t found in the Student Media office, however, she can be seen practicing at her ballet academy or recording music at a local studio. Despite working for the press for over nine years and never intending on stopping, Katya anticipates to professionally specialize in prosthetic development to improve the lives of disabled people around the world.