Staff

For the past 35+ years, Dr. Meg Gammage-Tucker (she/her) has worked in nonprofit management, organizational leadership, and philanthropy. Meg’s particular expertise is in board development and management, strategy, systems, and campaign planning implementation, research, evaluation, and organizational management, along with maximizing the growth of human resource, operational, and financial potential.

Meg has a Bachelor of Science in Sociology and Anthropology from Illinois State University and a Master of Science in Museum Studies, a Master of Public Administration, and a Ph.D. in Political Science, Nonprofit Management, and Museum Studies from Texas Tech University.

Meg has worked as a chief executive officer, president, vice president, and director of –  and consultant for – educational, cultural, and zoological institutions throughout her career. She has worked in archaeology in the American Midwest and Southwest and in philanthropy, membership, marketing, and management of museums of art, natural history, and culture in Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Minnesota, and Texas.

While serving as President & CEO of The Rhino Trust, she raised more than $3 million to fund rhino (and related human service support) conservation in Africa and Asia and was responsible for its merger with the International Rhino Foundation, thus reducing administrative cost and enhancing donor efficiency for both organizations.

Most recently, Meg served as CEO of the National Eagle Center, bringing a stalled capital development project to a successful conclusion during the COVID-19 pandemic to create a multi-channel, multi-facility regional campus on the Mississippi River.

Meg serves as the Founder, CEO & President of Build 4 Impact, Inc., a nonprofit consulting, management, and exhibition development firm, and also continues her 30+ year career as a faculty member of The Fund Raising School and adjunct faculty member of the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy of Indiana University,teaching both in-class and online courses. She has served as a member and chair of a variety of local, national, and international nonprofit boards and committees. She currently serves as a member of the Government Relations Committee at the Zoological Association of America; the Legislative and Fundraising Committees of the Minneapolis Sound Museum; and is a board member of PASA International and GLOBIO, Inc. , two organizations that are working diligently to care for and impact the conservation of primates and apes in Africa and around the world. 

Meg joined the staff of the Wildlife Center of Virginia as President in June 2024.

Amanda (she/her) first became involved with the Wildlife Center of Virginia when she attended Bridgewater College — first as a volunteer, then as an animal care preceptorship (extern) student in 2000. After graduating with a degree in biology in 2001, Amanda joined the staff as the weekend receptionist and part-time rehabilitator. Over the years, Amanda has held several different positions at the Wildlife Center, including wildlife rehabilitator, outreach coordinator, director of outreach, and, currently, the senior vice president. In this position, Amanda oversees the day-to-day activities and operations at the Center, as well as overall communications, including the Center's ever-changing website, along with Critter Cams and moderated discussion. She also orchestrates the annual Call of the Wild conference and helps care for and train the Center’s team of education ambassadors.  Amanda loves the dynamic nature of the ever-changing activities going on at a wildlife hospital and sharing the Wildlife Center’s mission and stories with others. In her free time, she serves as the volunteer program chair for the National Wildlife Rehabilitation Association’s annual symposium, and hangs out with her two dogs.

A native of Colorado, Randy (he/him) has spent more than four decades in nonprofit leadership and program management. He spent nearly 20 years in Washington, D.C. at Common Cause, the national citizens’ lobbying group, including more than a decade as vice president, leading its fundraising and communications programs. Randy was deputy director of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial, directed communications and development for Montpelier [the home of James and Dolley Madison in Orange County, Virginia], and served as director of major and planned giving for WMRA, the National Public Radio station for Charlottesville and the Shenandoah Valley. Randy joined the Wildlife Center staff in October 2005 as vice president, helping with fundraising, budgeting, and public relations.  Now the Center’s Senior Advisor, Randy works with the management team to try to keep the trains on the track. He and his wife Jackie Howell, a writer, massage therapist, and yoga instructor, live in an old farmhouse run by their cats.

Since the late 1970s, Ed Clark (he/him) has been a national leader in the field of conservation. His involvement has ranged from wilderness designation and public land management to pesticide regulation and endangered species protection. Raised in Flint Hill, Virginia, Ed received a B.A. in history and political science from Bridgewater College. He did graduate work in education at James Madison University and University of Virginia. His professional training includes environmental mediation, organization management, and strategic planning.

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