Skydog Wild Ambassadors
Our Wild Ambassadors are passionate champions of wild horses and donkeys, who firmly believe in our work to save, defend and protect them.
Our Wild Ambassadors bridge our mission with new communities, inviting them not just to follow us, but join our cause. These are the voices that carry Skydog beyond the fence line. They are more than supporters — they’re storytellers, connectors, and fierce advocates for mustangs and burros. They bring our mission to life in rooms we’ll never stand in, reaching people we may never meet.
Through lived connections, trusted relationships, a gift for energizing grassroots enthusiasm and a deep respect for the animals, they turn awareness into emotion — and emotion into action.
This is how a sanctuary becomes a movement.
Daryl Hannah
Daryl Hannah has had ties to Skydog Sanctuary for years and narrated our short film called Pass The Safe Act. She first approached us about doing a shirt she designed with Magnolia Pearl for her husband Neil Young’s tour with his band - perfectly named Crazy Horse. Over the years we have named two very wild horses in her honor: Blaze’s mare Hannah and Goliath’s mare Madison for her character in Splash. She has visited the ranch many times and had the rare honor of bottle feeding Zebedee when he first arrived. Daryl has the most incredible energy around horses and has rescued many of her own. She understands how to communicate with the thrown away and difficult horses we take in. Daryl is one of the Executive Producers on our movie Blue Zeus and attended the California Premiere, where she made an impassioned speech about Skydog that moved the whole audience. She takes her mini-horses, Romeo and Ziggy, to visit seniors at care homes, bringing a ton of therapeutic benefits and joy to the residents. Daryl joins our Skydog Wild Ambassador program and we are thrilled and honored to have her in this special role.
Matthew Rhys
Matthew became a founding supporter of Skydog before it was anything more than a conversation as we rode mustangs we adopted in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles. He came riding with me on my quarter horse, Elvis, and mustang, Buddy, until we went together to the Carson City prison to adopt two more together: Jimmy and Bono. We endlessly discussed what more we could do to help the wild horses of the US. When I started Skydog officially, he cheered us on enthusiastically. He wrote the foreword for our first coffee table book: Wild Horses of Skydog: Blue Zeus & Families and it is a great read! He is also the Executive Producer of the feature documentary Blue Zeus and helped enormously to make it a stunning success at film festivals in 2025. He also presented me with the Boston Film Festival’s Humanitarian Award after the showing of the film, where it won Best Documentary Feature. Matthew is an amazing friend to Skydog and continues to mention us and the plight of the American mustang in numerous ways and mediums. We are so chuffed to have him join our Skydog wild ambassador team. Our voices together are so much louder than on their own.
Nikki Reed
Nikki Reed has been a friend of Skydog for a good while. She and her husband, Ian Somerhalder, are an incredible couple who together raise environmental awareness to help this planet. Nikki is an active advocate for animal welfare, who regularly fosters and rehabilitates animals. An avid horse lover, her Instagram feed is full of horses, including her own five. She supports rescue organizations, with a special place in her heart for equines, which has led to collaborations with sanctuaries like Saving Gracie Foundation and Rancho Relaxo. She educates about mustangs and burros, while drawing attention to the plight of horses in the slaughter pipeline. Her deep, lifelong connection to horses is rooted in having spent time around them as a child. This is one reason I always feel like we share the same heart for horses and nature whenever we speak. I am delighted to have Nikki step into this role and continue to raise awareness, educate, and share some of our posts as a Skydog Wild Ambassador. She’s a wonderful person to share this journey with and join the fight, standing side by side for the good of animals and better treatment of them by all.
Zach Braff
Having been a big fan of Zach Braff’s since the movie Garden State and then Scrubs, I was very excited when he came to Skydog Malibu. It was even more thrilling to learn he spent the following evening doing a deep dive into our social media. It was a whole new world to him and he wanted to know more, so he asked me to come on his Fake Doctors, Real Friends podcast. He asked a lot of questions that people who know nothing about the wild horse issue would ask, so it was incredibly informative and took the world of wild mustangs, burros, and Skydog to an entirely new audience. He then flew up to Oregon with Christa Miller and took the most insane drone footage from the top of Sheeps Rock and of the horses galloping in Spring Valley. Since then, he has been to Malibu several times and is planing a trip to the new ranch in Santa Ynez Valley as soon as we are set up for guests. Zach epitomizes what the Wild Ambassador Program is all about: incredible people with huge platforms taking the subject of Skydog and Wild Horses into conversations well outside our reach. He recently commented on a post: “I was laying awake last night wondering, ‘How does Clare remember all their names?’” A mystery he can explore as he joins our team raising crucial awareness for our mission.
Beth Behrs
Beth Behrs is an incredible friend to Skydog. She has done so much to raise awareness for our sanctuary and the wild horses and donkeys who call it home. Her advocacy work is superb and it was such a pleasure to be a guest on her podcast Horse Power, which highlights all things horses and was one of my favorite interviews. Beth has her own rescue horse, Belle, half paint mare and half mustang, whom she rides bit-less and bareback. Her experience with horses has taught her, as it has me, that horses are the best natural healers. Beth is a huge advocate for wild horse adoption. She educates people about the Bureau of Land Management and encourages them to call Congress and speak up for mustangs. We share a deep love and connection with horses, so I couldn’t be more excited that she’s coming on board as a Wild Ambassador to continue to help spread the word and mobilize people to get involved in this movement. Beth has visited Skydog many times, sponsored a mustang mare named Remi, and also spoke up on our Pass the SAFE Act video to help shut down the slaughter pipeline once and for all.
Christa Miller
Christa Miller is a great friend to Skydog and myself personally. We have been friends for decades, I was even a bridesmaid at her wedding and have known her family forever. She often visits the horses and donkeys at all of our ranches. She posts about us on her social media with over 350,000 followers on Instagram alone. Christa was one of the first people to watch Blue Zeus and has been a guiding light in the whole process of the movie. Her attendance at the Newport Beach, California premiere of the film helped enormously in making us the buzz of the festival. In countless interviews promoting Scrubs and her incredibly popular Apple TV show Shrinking, she has also spoken about us. I am so glad to have Christa be a bigger part of Skydog. She’s a great Wild Ambassador and it will be so good to see her out in the world sharing our work.