Terri Roth
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Terri Lynn Roth (b. 1964/1965)[1] is the vice president of Conservation and Science at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden.[2] Additionally, she is the director of the Center for Conservation and Research of Endangered Wildlife (CREW).[3] She has made several breakthroughs in the captive breeding of Sumatran rhinoceroses, a critically endangered species with fewer than 300 left.[4]
Terri Roth grew up on a small farm in California; she stated that even from a young age, she enjoyed playing with snakes, toads, and lizards, "whatever I could catch." She attended the University of California, Davis, initially majoring in genetics but then switching emphasis to focus on reproductive physiology.[1] She received both her bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of California. She then attended Louisiana State University, earning a PhD in animal reproductive physiology with a minor in immunology. She was then a postdoc at the National Zoo.[5]