Rachel Avilla is a wildlife rehabilitator with over 20 years of experience and a degree in Environmental Science. She has worked and volunteered globally in wildlife rehabilitation and nonprofit management, and has collaborated with partners including tUC Davis, University of Pennsylvania, NOAA, he National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, and wildlife agencies in California, Washington, Arizona, Florida, and Pennsylvania. She served on the board of directors for the California Council for Wildlife Rehabilitators for six years, including five years as President.
Rachel is the Executive Director and co-founder of the Wild Neighbors Database Project (WNDP) and the Operations and Outreach Coordinator for the Clear Lake Environmental Research Center (CLERC). Grounded in hands-on wildlife rehabilitation, her work focuses on improving care outcomes and using tools such as the Wildlife Rehabilitation Medical Database (WRMD) and WildAlert to translate rehabilitation data into actionable wildlife health monitoring and environmental decision-making. Ceto which incorporates marine mammal stranding events and OWRMD which focuses on Oil Spill Response.
Rachel Avilla
Co-founder and Executive Director
The Wild Neighbors Database Project
rachel.avilla@wildneighborsdp.org
+1 (707) 216-1848
www.wildneighborsdp.org
PO BOX 421
Middletown, CA 95461
