Defenders of Wildlife Speaker

Wednesday April 19, 5:30-6:30 pm: Dr. Shari Wilcox, Defenders of Wildlife

Email jgallagh@umw.edu for Zoom link!

Shari Wilcox received her degree in Geography from Mary Washington in 2001 and her Master’s and Doctoral degrees in Geography from the University of Texas at Austin.  She also holds a Masters in nonprofit management from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at UT. Read about her work here.

Shari works as the Senior Texas Representative for DC-based the environmental nonprofit organization Defenders of Wildlife. A self-described “cat nerd,” she has dedicated her efforts to the study, conservation and restoration of the native wild cats that call the U.S.-Mexico borderlands home, including the jaguar, jaguarundi, and ocelot. Currently, she leads Defenders’ ocelot conservation team in the Rio Grande Valley and is part of a landmark project to restore jaguars to portions of central New Mexico and Arizona. Shari also serves as an Associate Professor of Practice in Geography and Sustainability at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

She is the co-editor of the book, Historical Animal Geographies, and has authored a number of scholarly articles and book chapters examining contemporary and historical interactions of humans and wild cats in the borderlands. She is currently at work on her book, Jaguars of Empire: Natural History in the New World, under contract with UNC Press. Her research has received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Smithsonian Institution.

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