Dr. Susan Lyndaker Lindsey ’78
Executive Director, Wild Canid Center, Washington University
Alumni Citation Recipient 2003

Since 1993, Susan Lindsey has been executive director of the Wild Canid Survival and Research Center at Washington University’s Tyson Research Center in Eureka, Missouri. Founded by R. Marlin Perkins in 1971, the Wild Canid Center focuses on preservation of all canids, and most notably, the red and Mexican grey wolves, but extending to species throughout the world, from South America to Africa to the Middle East. It has done extensive research on wolf breeding, habits and extinction threats. The center is a private, nonprofit conservation organization dedicated to the preservation of the wolf and other endangered canids through education, research and captive breeding. Dr. Lindsey is the co-author of The Okapi: Mysterious Animal of Congo-Zaire, which features an introduction by Dr. Jane Goodall. She earned her B.S. in biology from St. Lawrence (where she credits Professor Emeritus of Biology John Green with spurring her interest in wildlife conservation), her M.A. from Southern Illinois University and her Ph.D. from Colorado State University.