Zoo to You - Wildlife Education with an ECOTUDE!


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					David Jackson, CEO CONSERVATION AMBASSADORS When not out with the animals on the road and doing educational presentations David is busy keeping the business end together. This company was started from a dream of David and Anita. David keeps everyone on track, sticking to the original mission of Conservation Ambassadors. When things need to be built around the facility David gets the job done! David has a unique way with animals that shows in the deep bonds they have with him.

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					Anita Jackson, Program Director CONSERVATION AMBASSADORS Waking up with a kangaroo in the kitchen and a warthog on the porch, was nothing she ever expected but it sure starts a day out right. Anita writes the curriculum for the presentations and trains most of the animals that live here at Zoo To You, she supervises staff at both facilities and teaches them how to do education programs and care for and train the animals. Everday Anita is on the road going to schools to share the animals with school kids.


					Missy Lamar, General Manager/Educator CONSERVATION AMBASSADORS Little did Missy know when she offered to help build new enclosures for some macaques that she would be so drawn in she would never leave. She did two internships with us while attending the E.A.T.M. program at Moorpark College. Upon graduation she moved to Paso Robles before her husband to start working with us. Missy enjoys doing educational presentations about conservation and animal training. Her favorite hobby is even animal related - Missy is a licensed falconer. Missy’s main job right now (she is pregnant) is to keep us all on track. She organizes everyones time, schedules all programs and keeps all paperwork up to date.


					Melanie Barton, Facility Manager/Educator WILDLIFE ON WHEELS We should have known when she was a lion trainer in a play in preschool, what career she would end up in. Melanie was a teacher working with special needs children when she decided she needed to include animals in her life. Two years later and a degree from Moorpark College, Melanie combined her two loves Kids and Animals. Her energy and great storytelling ability make every presentation an adventure.


					Shannon Southard, – Trainer/keeper ZOO TO YOU What do you do with a degree in biology and pschology? Well you work with animals of course! Shannon has a love for animals and kids. So what better place for her to be but with us at Zoo To You! Shannon graduated for Moorpark College in 2005.

					Libby Williams, Trainer/keeper ZOO TO YOU As a freshman in college, Libby experienced one of Zoo To You’s early ‘Under the Canopy’ programs during Poly Royal 1990. After graduating from Cal Poly, she volunteered with Zoo To You for five years before moving away to take a job in the Bay Area. Now, just a short 17 years after seeing her first Zoo To You presentation, she’s traveled back to the central coast to live an amazing life here as a keeper and animal handler. Libby’s previous job was as a wildlife rehabilitator and animal caretaker, which had her raising anything and everything California Native; from hummingbirds, skunks (with the stink!) and opossums to great egrets and great-horned owls. In her spare time, she loves to take pictures, sketch and paint and oh yeah, she also watches too much reality t.v., but don’t tell anyone.

					Kat Amsinger, Keeper/Handler ZOO TO YOU Despite a fear of snakes, during her senior year at Oregon State University, Kat began an internship at a local reptile breeding and education facility. She quickly came to love the scaly creatures and gladly took an educator position at the facility after graduation. Kat traveled across her home state giving school presentations, busting common snake myths and letting second graders pet their first turtle. To expand her animal horizons, she took up a short internship at Pacific Animal Productions in San Diego to work with a wider variety of animals and loved it so much Kat knew she had to keep it up. When offered a position at Zoo To You, she packed up her car and drove straight from Corvallis, OR down to Paso Robles, CA and couldn't be happier!


					Angela Boelk, Keeper/Handler ZOO TO YOU
(A Non-Profit Conservation Education Organization) P.O. Box 1998, Paso Robles, CA 93447 • Phone: (805) 238 - 9015 Toll-Free: 1 888 ECOTUDE • Fax: 805 237 7778 EMAIL US We are fully insured and licensed by California and many other Fish and Game Depts. U.S. Dept of Agriculture, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, and other appropriate agencies. Accredited by the American Association of Wildlife Educators.