Diana Hadley, President

Diana is president of the Northern Jaguar Project. She is associate curator of ethnohistory and director of the Arizona State Museum's Office of Ethnohistorical Research at The University of Arizona. She specializes in the history of land use and ecological change in the southwestern United States and northern México. She has co-authored book-length studies of Aravaipa Canyon, San Rafael Valley, Bonita Creek, the Arizona-New Mexico borderlands, and upper San Pedro Valley. Raised in Arizona, Diana is the former operator of a family ranch. She has served on the board of directors of Native Seeds/SEARCH, the Audubon Research Ranch, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, and the Tucson-Pima County Historical Commission. Diana has organized conferences on grassland restoration, Native American sacred sites, deforestation in the Sierra Madres, prairie dog ecology, and restoration of the Santa Cruz River. She is one of the incorporators of Northern Jaguar Project, Inc. and has served as president since incorporation.

Oscar Moctezuma, Director of Naturalia

For fourteen years, Oscar has served as Director General of Naturalia, the non-profit conservation organization headquartered in Mexico City that holds title to the Los Pavos Jaguar Reserve. He was instrumental in obtaining funds from Mexican contributors to purchase Rancho Los Pavos, the first private conservation reserve in Sonora. Oscar is a biologist with more than twenty years experience in the field of Mexican conservation and environmental protection, with executive director service to Comité para la Vida Silvestre en Riesego de Extinction. In addition to the Northern Jaguar Project, Oscar serves on the board of directors of Sky Island Alliance and the Wildlands Project, and he regularly works with bi-national conservation groups such as The Nature Conservancy.

Craig Miller, Vice-president

Craig has been an active wildlife conservationist in the Southwest for twenty years, and has led Defenders of Wildlife's regional programs as Southwest Representative since 1993. He has served on federal recovery teams for the Mexican gray wolf and Cactus ferruginous pygmy owl, as well as the steering committee for the Lower Colorado River Multi-Species Conservation Plan. Craig is a founding member of the Northern Jaguar Project and a former board member of the Arizona League of Conservation Voters. He also currently serves on the steering committee of the Southern Rockies Wolf Restoration Project, the executive committee of the Grand Canyon Wolf Recovery Project, and as the undefeated soccer coach of Tucson's Southside Scorpions. He has a B.S. in Public Administration/Natural Resources from Northern Arizona University and is an alumnus of both the Lesley College Graduate School and the National Audubon Society Expedition Institute.

Rick Williams, Treasurer

Rick is one of the incorporators of Northern Jaguar Project, Inc. and is a founding board member. He has served as treasurer since the organization's inception. Prior to the formalization of the Northern Jaguar Project as a 501(c)(3) organization, Rick was a wildlife photographer in the Northern Rockies, with works appearing in regional galleries and the Grand Teton National Park Visitor Center. After becoming familiar with the jaguars of the Southwest, Rick moved from Idaho to Arizona to assist Dr. Carlos López Gonzalez in maintaining his jaguar research and budding conservation project in the foothills of the Sierra Madre in eastern Sonora. Rick has spent months in the field with researchers, and he worked as volunteer organizer and coordinator during the early stages of the Project's development. Today, most of Rick's photographic work is focused on documenting the diverse flora, fauna, and land of the Northern Jaguar Reserve.

Dr. Peter Warshall, Secretary

Peter has worked for more than thirty years on conservation, biodiversity protection, and community development projects in Africa, Latin America, and North America for the United Nations, USAID, various conservation groups and businesses, and Native American governments. He is considered an expert on the Madrean Sky Island archipelago as well as the endangered Mt. Graham red squirrel. He has worked for the Point Reyes Bird Observatory on migratory bird habitat conservation, and as an elected official, he pioneered the conversion of sewerage plant effluent into a bird sanctuary. He serves on the board of directors of the All Species Foundation, Sky Island Alliance, Scientists for the Preservation of Mt. Graham, RES (anthropology), Tallberg Foundation (Sweden, sustainability), World Innovation Foundation, and is a member of the Global Business Network. Peter received a B.A. in Biology and a Ph.D. in Biology and Anthropology from Harvard University. He received a Fulbright scholarship for studies in Mammalogy (Ecole de Medicín) and Anthropology (Sorbonne). He edited the environmental sections of the Whole Earth Catalog and its magazines from 1973 to 1996.