Jennifer Stoeckl

Jennifer Stoeckl is the co-founder of the Dire Wolf Project working closely with her mother, Lois Schwarz, to bring about a new hope of healthier, long-lived lives for our most beloved furry companions. She spent over ten years in apprenticeship learning the benefits of some of the most misunderstood ideas in dog breeding. She has come to know just what it takes to speak up with steadfast purpose for what is right when it comes to fighting for a better life for those creatures that cannot speak for themselves.

Jennifer received her Bachelor of Arts degree in French language from Oregon State University. She studied French language and culture at the University of Poitiers, France in 1997. After graduating, she then traveled to Namibia in Africa as a teacher trainer in 1999 where she lived in a mud hut working at local schools to improve the educational experience for children living in the rural savanna. Upon returning to the United States, Jennifer received a Master’s degree in Education from George Fox University in Oregon and became a special education teacher where she helped young children navigate school systems with limited resources. She eventually left teaching in 2015 to pursue advocating for increased health and stable temperaments for our four-legged friends through the Dire Wolf Project’s unique breeding practices.

She lives with her husband, Jay, in the beautiful inland northwest on 28 acres of Ponderosa forest surrounded by state and federal land only a few hundred yards from the glorious Columbia River. She currently lives in a forty-year old 300 square foot motor home where she writes on a solar-powered computer that rests on a small RV dinette booth.