Cornelia (Neil) Huttlives in the Appalachian mountains of Virginia in a nearly 200-year-old field stone house that was a field hospital in the Civil War. Neil taught in the public schools for more than 20 years. She has developed curricula for major conservation organizations and for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. She serves as chair of the board's Education Committee and as trip coordinator for the Center's learning adventures to Canada's Northwest Territories. She coordinated seven March trips to Yellowstone National Park. She is on the Advisory Committee for the quarterly International Wolf magazine, and writes the magazine's department, "Wolves of the World." Neil is chair of the board of the Red Wolf Coalition in northeastern North Carolina. The Coalition works to educate the public about endangered red wolves and is planning to build an interpretive and education facility in red wolf country near Columbia, NC.

Neil says, "Everything about the Wolf Center is consistent with my personal and professional philosophy about conservation and environmental education." She "enjoys board friendship and camaraderie, the association with the core people in the Center, the close relationship with the staff and the chance to work with them, and the sense that I am helping to accomplish things that are important."