Staff

Julie has been an animal care volunteer with Wolf Hollow for 23 years, and a Board member for 20 years. She has a wildlife biology degree and secondary education certification from Arizona State University. Other related experience includes 20 years as Executive Director of a local non-profit environmental organization, and her work as a coordinator for San Juan County Emergency Management for 5 years. As Executive Director, she focuses on fund raising, personnel and facilities projects. And, of course, she continues as an animal care volunteer for Lopez Island!

Jan’s job at Wolf Hollow involves a range of duties including dealing with accounts, tracking grant spending, updating our data base, organizing events and tracking and developing charitable donations to Wolf Hollow.

She is originally from Anacortes, but lived in San Diego, CA for 25 years before she and her husband came back to  live on San Juan Island in June 2010. Jan owned and operated a pet sitting business in southernCaliforniafor 17 years, and has over 30 years active involvement with a range of animal welfare organizations.

Penny has had animal experience as an intern in a marine mammal park and at a wildlife rehabilitation center in Texas before she was hired as Staff Rehabilitator at Wolf Hollow in 2007. She has a degree in zoology with emphasis in marine biology from University of Washington. She had spent a spring quarter at the University of Washington Laboratories here on the island. She always knew that she would be coming back to this place that she had come to love from her studies. Penny also brings five years of customer service and team management to Wolf Hollow. She enjoys giving a helping hand and assisting others in any way. As Staff Rehabber Penny’s work involves animal care, and training and supervising interns and animal care volunteers.

Jennifer was born and raised in Washington State and earned her degree in Biology at Whittier College, CA.  She was an intern at Wolf Hollow in 2006 and later spent five months in Hawaii caring for pelagic seabirds, before moving to Tyler, TX to work as a Bird Keeper at Caldwell Zoo.  She enjoyed her work at the zoo, but discovered that her true passion was wildlife rehabilitation.  She missed the challenges of working with injured and orphaned wildlife of a wide range of species, and preparing them for release back into the wild.  She came back to Wolf Hollow as Seasonal Rehabber in 2009, then spent the winter travelling to South Africa to volunteer at a Seabird Rehab Centerand a Large Carnivore and Primate Sanctuary, before returning as our Seasonal Rehabber for summer 2010.  Jennifer was our Volunteer Coordinator throughout the winter before joining our full-time staff as Wildlife Rehabilitator in spring 2011.

Shona was born and raised in Scotland where she earned a degree in Biology and Environmental Science from the University of Stirling, before working for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and as a Countryside Ranger for several years. She spent two years working at a Marine Station in Sweden before moving to San Juan Island in 1990.  Shona started volunteering at Wolf Hollow later that year and soon became a member of the rehab and education staff.

As our Education Coordinator, Shona’s aim is to help people learn more about local wildlife and human impacts on these animals and their habitats. She coordinates our Educational Outreach Program, produces our newsletter, “Wild Times”, works with our education birds and coordinates the Internship Program.

Mark joined us at Wolf Hollow in May 2008 after working as Hatchery Manager at Westcott Bay Sea Farms here on San Juan Island for many years. Mark’s work at Wolf Hollow involves repairing and maintaining all of our enclosures, buildings and equipment and coordinating construction of additions to our facilities.

Eric and his wife Stacy moved to San Juan Island in April 2010 to manage States Inn and Ranch. Since leaving the farm, Eric and Stacy have created “Hearts and Homes”, professional care giving and property care taking services. Before moving to the San Juans, Eric and Stacy lived in Wisconsin where they owned, managed and maintained residential buildings, so Eric is familiar with the wide range of maintenance work required to keep everything running.  Building and repairing animal enclosures and seal pools may be a bit different from his previous work, but Eric enjoys the many benefits of working at Wolf Hollow, especially helping to create a safe environment for recovering wildlife.