Michelle Danks - Founder & Executive Director

Michelle Danks is the founder and passionate advocate behind Emergency Wildlife Rescue (EWR). With a lifelong respect for nature and wildlife and a deep love for Africa’s rich biodiversity, she established EWR to address the urgent need for protecting and rehabilitating Africa’s precious wildlife.

In 2017, she served as the International Communications Manager for Lilongwe Wildlife Trust in Malawi where she got to live out her lifelong dream of working in wildlife conservation overseas. To say that experience was life changing would be an understatement! 

That experience along with a year of amazing wildlife encounters fueled her passion and commitment to make a tangible difference in wildlife conservation.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in Journalism from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) and is currently pursuing her Master’s in Wildlife Conservation & Management from Unity Environmental University. 

Michelle currently resides in San Diego, CA and enjoys spending time with friends, family and her rescue dog, Jackson.