A recent transplant from New Orleans, Hadley spent most of her childhood in the Appalachian Mountains of southwestern Virginia. After attending Virginia Commonwealth University, where she studied photography and biology, she found herself working on a deer ranch in south Texas. This eventually led to an internship at Audubon Zoo in New Orleans. At the zoo, she worked with some pretty incredible creatures including elephants, Amur leopards, and small-clawed otters, but her favorite was Bubba, the grumpy male lion. While in New Orleans, Hadley earned her Masters in Teaching and taught biology in the Treme and Central City neighborhoods. Hadley is excited to finally be out of the heat and humidity of the swamp and is enjoying spending time with her fiance and two dogs, Lucy and Bizzy, in their log cabin in Alta. |