The Guardians

Peggy Coleman Taylor

Voice of Advocacy • Founder • Executive Director

Peggy Coleman Taylor is a visionary conservation advocate. Driven by a passion for the natural world and a refusal to let America’s wild go extinct, Peggy has spent more than a decade doing tactical, "boots-on-the-ground" work to save wild horses and burros from slaughter. Her tireless advocacy directly exposes how manufactured myths of wild horse "overpopulation" are weaponized to protect corporate grazing and industrial interests at the expense of native wildlife.

Before dedicating her life to environmental defense, Peggy enjoyed a high-profile career in motion picture production, a veteran Hollywood location manager and clapper/loader in iconic American films like A River Runs Through It (1992) and Parenthood (1989).

Transitioning from Hollywood to conservation, Peggy has built a comprehensive network dedicated to equine rescue. Showing up in person to auctions, holding facilities, government roundups, and the last remaining landscapes where horses still roam free, she has developed a deep understanding of the true scope of the threats these animals face. From coordinating horse transport and quarantine to securing funding to “bail" wild horses from kill lots, to re-wilding or re-homing.  Her hands-on approach has saved 100’s of wild horses and burrows from slaughter.

However, as federal roundups have intensified, Peggy recognized the growing crisis of 1000’s of wild horses and burros loosing their freedom, and founded the Wild Blessings Project, a large-scale conservation initiative—the ultimate execution of a vision to keep wild horses and burros wild and protected.

Peggy’s lifelong bond with horses is perfectly embodied by her companion, Time Ahead (TA). After owning his lineage and training him for the racetrack, 30 years later, TA is now a beloved therapy horse, bringing healing and comfort to trauma victims. Fighting for the permanent future of America’s wild herds to thrive for generations to come or facilitating equine healing, Peggy remains an authentic steward and guardian. 

Karen Brady

Karen is a licensed CPA and enjoys helping individual and small business clients confidently navigate the complexities of the tax and accounting worlds. She's a lifelong artist; a master of hand-thrown pottery. Additionally, Karen is a practitioner with intuitive healings and psychic readings. She shares life with her wonderful husband and an amazing family of animals - including three horses, a mini horse, two goats, two ducks, two dogs, and a barn cat. She is seen here providing healing to several horses in a kill lot that were saved.

Steward of Land • Treasurer

CDR. Douglas S. Taylor, USCG, Ret.

CDR. Taylor, a Ret. USCG helicopter pilot is a recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross. With two tours in Alaska, he has made a life time career in saving human lives, and is now a supporter of saving the lives of wild horses. CDR. Taylor, a Native American style flute maker, tuned in 432 Hz (miracle tone) in honor of the spirit of the wild horses.

Keeper of Memory • Secretary

Advisory Guardians

Zahara Henderson

Zahara is a junior advocate for the wild horses along with her North American native mustang, Just Blazin’, who lost his family and freedom from a BLM helicopter round-up at just 5 months old in Stewart Creek, WY HMA, 10/20/20. Zahara’s family includes three other mustangs and three reservation wild horses, in addition to stewarding several older mustangs saved from the slaughter pipeline. Zahara’s dream is to bring awareness to these national treasures and highlight the importance of protecting the wild horses who remain in the wild through USEF sports. Winning 2 silver medals in 2 team events and one silver for individual finals and champion in 2 .85s competing in the USEF Pony-Jumper National Championship 2026 in Lexington, KY. Honored to have received the Heart of Horsemanship award. Zahara enjoys other challenges outside wild horse protections, as she actively participates in the Arts and academically, maintains a 4.0 GPA.