Tiffani has been the bookkeeper for Sonoma County Wildlife Rescue since Spring 2017. Megan believes she has found her dream job and love’s every moment she spends saving and rehabilitating wildlife. She was offered a temporary job as the Director of Animal Care at Sonoma County Wildlife Rescue in 2018 and was hired on as an Assistant to the Director later that year. The two months Megan spent in Africa changed her and drove her towards pursuing work with wildlife. In 2017 Megan went to South Africa to volunteer her time helping with the conservation of cheetahs and other African wildlife. She was offered a job at Safari West after her internship and spent the next ten years working as a zoo keeper of carnivores, primates, and birds. Megan’s senior year at Cal Poly she interned at the Safari West Zoo in Santa Rosa California and immediately fell in love with being a zookeeper. She later attended California’s Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo and graduated with a bachelor’s of science in animal science in 2008. She started as a teenager working in local pet stores. She knew from a very young age that she wanted to work with animals. Megan Brown-Herrera grew up in rural Mendocino County. She now spends most of her time in the hospital and around the property working closely with animal care staff and volunteers making sure the wildlife that come through our doors have the best care we can possibly give them while enjoying everyone’s mutual compassion for our furry neighbors in need. Working closely with the Animal Care Director, she fell in love with the work and decided she was in it for the long haul when promoted to Assistant Animal Care Director. In April 2015, she was hired on at Sonoma County Wildlife Rescue as an Animal Care Assistant where she realized a deep passion for wildlife rescue and rehabilitation. While in college and after graduation she worked as a keeper at Safari West in Santa Rosa. In 2012, she graduated California State Polytechnic in Pomona with a BS in Environmental Biology. Katie was born and raised here in Sonoma County where she developed a dutiful appreciation for all aspects of nature through camping and hiking throughout her childhood and into adulthood. Duncan especially enjoys hands-on work including wildlife rescues, oil spill response, designing and building wildlife enclosures, and working with other professional and passionate people in the field. Duncan launched a pilot nuisance wildlife exclusion service – “A Wildlife Exclusion Service.” (AWES) She now mentors other wild rehabilitation centers to start their own exclusion services. She is currently a member of Oiled Wildlife Care Network and International Bird Rescue Center’s Oiled Wildlife Response Team. Duncan was hired as the first employee of Sonoma County Wildlife Rescue and was subsequently promoted to Executive Director. She has served as a board member for the California Council for Wildlife Rehabilitators and the Animal Welfare Advisory Committee – an appointment by the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors. Duncan and her daughter volunteered together at various wildlife centers in northern California. Duncan became involved in wildlife rehabilitation in 1997 at the urging of her young daughter. After a fifteen-year career in education, Ms.
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