Voices for the Wolves: An Advocate’s Journey in Conservation

Martha Handler joined the WCC board in 2001 and is currently serving as Board President. After graduating from the University of Colorado in 1981, she worked as an environmental consultant for the EPA, NRC and Department of Energy in Washington, D.C., San Francisco and Los Angeles. During this time Martha specialized in community relations at various Superfund sites across the country and wrote regulations and provided oversight in the areas of nuclear waste, oil refinery regulations, and asbestos removal procedures. Martha has been an environmentalist, philanthropist, and community activist for many years. While living and attending school in the West, she became aware of the plight of the wolves and vowed to find a way to get involved to secure their survival. When she and her family moved East in 1996, she met the founder of the WCC and recognized that this was the opportunity she’d been dreaming of. Since joining the Board, Martha has remained one of the WCC’s most ardent and enthusiastic supporters. In addition to serving on the WCC Board, Martha has served on the boards of the Lewisboro Land Trust and the Lewisboro Library. She is also an award-winning writer. Her most recent novel, Winter of the Wolf, is a New York Times best-seller.