The Lizard Lady (2018) by Jennifer Keats Curtis & Dr. Nicole Frances Angeli

🦎Join us for a meet up and reading with the adventurous Dr. Nicole Frances Angeli in collaboration with CFVI [ @cfvirginislands ], on July 18th, 2026 from 11:30am - 2:00pm!📖🖊️🌳

📚The Lizard Lady - Co-authored with Jennifer Keats Curtis: Join the Lizard Lady as she cuts her way through thick Caribbean forests searching for critically endangered St. Croix ground lizards. Hunted to extinction on the island of St. Croix by invasive species brought by colonizing farmers, these lizards are now only found on surrounding islands in the US Virgin Islands. Readers learn that scientists can be women and that the day in a life of a scientist can be anything but boring. Nicole F. Angeli IS the Lizard Lady—can she help save these animals?📚

🦎Nicole Frances Angeli is the Director of the Division of Fish and Wildlife of the Virgin Islands of the United States and a research associate at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History. She received a PhD at Texas A&M University, a MSc at the University of Maryland, and a BA in Behavioral Biology at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Angeli studies how species can survive in a changing world where threats still exist. The goal of her work is to
inform conservation decision making for endangered species today. When she’s not writing up her latest research results, she can be found taking a long ocean swim.

🦎Join us at 11:30am on Saturday, July 18th where you can bring your kids, have a reading, and meet her in person.

Tell a friend and see you soon!💕