Wildlife Jewels Founder Spotlight: Azi Sharif, PhD, in Shoutout SoCal
Wildlife Jewels Featured in Shoutout Socal, October 15, 2025
💎 Founder Feature: Azi Sharif, PhD, in Shoutout SoCal
We’re thrilled to share that our Founder & Executive Director, Azi Sharif, PhD, was featured in Shoutout SoCal — highlighting Wildlife Jewels® and our mission to protect wildlife.
In the interview, Azi talks about what inspires her work — the magical beauty, intelligence, and vulnerability of wildlife — and how that passion led to the creation of Wildlife Jewels.
She shares how Wildlife Jewels® grew from sketching wildlife as a child to a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that protects wildlife through art, science, search and rescue, habitat restoration, ocean conservation, and hands-on community action.
“At Wildlife Jewels®, we believe Wildlife are the Jewels™ — precious, irreplaceable, and rapidly disappearing because of human-caused threats. Every single wildlife is unique, precious, and must be protected.”
— Azi Sharif, PhD, Founder & Executive Director
We’re honored to see Wildlife Jewels® and our mission recognized. Every initiative — from art-based education to coastal monitoring, rescue response, and native planting — is driven by our belief that wildlife are treasures beyond measure and that together, we can protect them.
📖 Click HERE to read the full interview on Shoutout SoCal
Photo: A precious Jaguar by Azi S. | © Wildlife Jewels
The mission of Wildlife Jewels® is to protect wildlife from threats driven by human activities, to inspire individuals to value living wildlife, and to empower them to take impactful actions to save wildlife. Join Us!
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