Meet Our Staff | Alaska Raptor Center

This is our year-round team, here day-in and day-out caring for our birds, educating visitors, maintaining our facilities and communicating with members. In addition we add between 10 and 13 additional staff to help educate our summer visitors and make the Alaska Raptor Center the highlight of a vacation. Our summer staff are known as Wildlife Interpreters and in a very short time become very knowledgeable about our birds, their environment and the work we do here in Alaska.

	Debbie Reeder, Executive Director Debbie is responsible for all aspects of the Alaska Raptor Center, including operations, fundraising and education. An employee since 2002, Debbie was recently promoted from Operations Manager to Executive Director.			Ange Grant, Member Services Manager Ange is responsible for helping maintain a relationship with all of our members, including mailing renewals, managing the database and a large variety of other orrespondence. She also works on development, helps with the summer tour planning and operations and jumps in anywhere she see's a need! Ange has been with the Alaska Raptor Center since 2004.
	Roger Trani, Avian Keeper Roger is part of a two-person team tasked with the feeding and cleaning of our birds and their habitats. He’s current on proper nutrition and helps maintain a clean environment, which is extremely important to the well being of wild patients and our education birds. Roger has been with the Center since 2007.			Zachary MacDonald – Bird Handler/Trainer Zach came to the Alaska Raptor Center as a summer wildlife interpreter in 2009. He returned in the summer of 2010 for the same job. He also worked in the husbandry department cleaning and preparing diets. Zach is working towards a degree in biology . While attending school in Idaho, he spent winters volunteering at other rehab facilities. When a permanent position opened up at the Alaska Raptor Center in January of 2011, he returned to take on a position as a bird handler. Zach has been a great addition to the team, working with all of the education birds and helping out wherever he is needed.
	Jennifer Cedarleaf, Avian Rehabilitation Coordinator Jen is typically referred to as our “rehabber,” since her primary duty is to take care of the injured and sick birds admitted to our clinic. Jen works part time for the Center, adjusting her schedule to match our patient load. The rest of the time she is a research assistant for a humpback whale biologist.			Victoria Vosburg, DVM - Veterinarian Dr. Vosburg supports the Center on a contract basis, diagnosing, treating and helping rehabilitate our wild patients. In addition, she performs regular exams and care for our resident education birds. She was our staff veterinarian at the Center from the mid 1990's through 1998, and returned to us on a contract basis in 2005. We are very fortunate to have someone with her level of experience with raptors, coupled with a thorough knowledge of our organization and a love for both.
	Steve Gulledge, Facility Maintance After more than 10 years with no one on staff to take care of our maintenance needs, we were able to add this position back, and when Steve came through our doors we hit the jackpot! Steve came to work with us in 2009 and hasn’t stopped for a second since then. He is in constant motion, and sometimes has a project completed before we’re done thinking about it! With 17 acres of property, a large physical facility and more than 10 years of deferred maintenance, Steve has plenty of job security with us.

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