Shana (Osmer) Weatherly

Shana (Osmer) Weatherly was recently named the 2022 Brightman Volunteer Achievement Award winner. She is a retired Social Worker-turned volunteer animal handler at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma. This award was created to recognize a PDZA volunteer who has made outstanding contributions in support of PDZA and its mission of “awakening a connection to wild life with everyone in the Pacific Northwest.” She also enjoys volunteering at Featherhaven, a nonprofit native songbird and raptor rehabilitation center in Enumclaw. One might say she traded working with people for animals!