Dr. Taylor J. Willis is the co-founder of Worldwide Wildlife. A born and raised Texan who earned her bachelor’s degree in biology with a minor in both Spanish and chemistry from the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas. From the very beginning of her educational career, she was traveling and working with animals. While earning her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, she completed externships focused on zoo and wildlife medicine within the US and across the world including South Africa, Malaysia, Brazil, Australia, and more. In school, she fell in love with field research and published research on disease prevalence and surveillance in re-introduced Alligator Snapping Turtles. Shortly after graduating, she completed a small-animal rotating internship and moved back to the Dallas-Fort Worth area to work as a Small Animal, Companion Exotics, and Zoo veterinarian. In addition to her being the veterinarian of many different species currently, she still fulfills her love for international education as a veterinary instructor abroad in South Africa concurrently. She has always had a love for zoological medicine and wished that more people could obtain opportunities within the field early on in their careers. Thus, Worldwide Wildlife was born.

Andrew Willis holds an undergraduate degree in business and also an MBA. He has traveled the globe with his wife, visiting over a hundred zoos, wildlife preserves, and animal rescue centers. He currently runs the business operations side of Worldwide Wildlife.