Meet Our Staff
Photo by Annie White
Kent Weber, Director and Co-Founder
Kent has spent the past three decades as an experiential educator working to provide a home for rescued animals. His patience and skill as a teacher have benefited thousands of volunteers and visitors over the years. He is the main spokesperson for the traveling and on-site Ambassador Wolf programs, and has inspired compassion and understanding in countless visitors.
Kent has profound architectural knowledge from his background in construction management and he applies this knowledge to make the sanctuary sustainable through solar power and passive solar design.
Kent wears many different hats at the sanctuary: You might find him in the Mission: Wolf tool shop, teaching new volunteers how to build something for the first time, talking about group psychology to high school students, or discussing wolf conservation with a visiting biologist. During the summer, the one hat you can count on him wearing almost every day is his cowboy hat.
Tracy Ane Brooks, Co-Founder
With over two decades of experience working with wolves and horses, Tracy understands animal behavior and has developed gentle handling techniques that are truly her own.
Tracy teaches interested Mission: Wolf staff how to use body language to communicate with wolves and horses. She has also developed successful handling techniques for the captive Ambassador wolves to help them feel calm and happy in public, unnatural, and new environments. Tracy is currently developing a wolf/horse body language teaching program at the sanctuary, using positive interactions between people and animals as an educational and therapeutic tool.
She published a book about her work, entitled A Walk in Connection. An accomplished artist, Tracy has raised money for the sanctuary from sales of her artwork.
Photo by Shevaun Williams