Wild Tunes is a music therapy program for shelter animals started by Yuvi Agarwal, a 10-year-old animal and music lover. Each week, Yuvi goes to local shelters in Houston to play the keyboard for the animals in their care. Yuvi and his mom Priyanka are hoping to spread this local program across the country so that musicians can enrich the lives of shelter pets everywhere.

Part 4

Media Relations Laura Pennino has more than 40 years of experience as a writer, editor and public relations specialist who leverages her “Big Agency experience” and personalized approaches to support clients and media all over the world. Laura and her family have been rescuing and rehoming racehorses, dogs, cats, and goats for decades. Since August of 2020, she has fostered more than 50 dogs, cats, puppies and kittens and helped to place them for adoption with reputable rescue organizations. This is the final installment of a four-part series to help animal welfare organizations put their best foot forward. Tune in!

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Cory Stottlemyer is a Deputy Shelter Director at BARC, overseeing the Outreach, Customer Service, and Registration teams. He also serves as the Director of Communications for the department of which BARC is a division, Administration and Regulatory Affairs.

Cory began his career as a local newspaper reporter, covering the Fort Bend County area, before transitioning to municipal government, with a focus on crisis communications. Before joining the team at ARA, he served as the Public Information Officer for both the City of Houston’s Office of Emergency Management and Municipal Courts Departments.

A newer team member at BARC, Cory has one foster fail dog from the shelter, in addition to two other dogs and a cat at home.

Sadhvi Siddhali Shree is the first North American female Jain monk, a US Army Iraq war combat veteran, a TEDx speaker, FORBES council member, activist, and an award-winning filmmaker.

Sadhvi Anubhuti is an accomplished Jain monk, filmmaker, speaker, and activist who advocates for non-violence and human and animal rights. She is the Director of Operations of Siddhayatan Tirth and holds a BBA in Marketing and a Minor in French from the University of Houston.

Determined to bring about positive change and to help humans and animals who have suffered, Sadhvi Siddhali Shree directed and produced two award-winning documentaries: Stopping Traffic: The Movement to End Sex Trafficking and Surviving Sex Trafficking, and co-directed and produced For the Animals: a Documentary, which raises awareness about the stray animal and overpopulation crisis in the United States by focusing on the city of Houston.

Sadhvi Anubhuti also worked on the two sex trafficking documentaries and made her co-directorial debut on For the Animals, which aims to relieve the pain and suffering of animals. Her inspiring mission has been recognized by major media outlets, including Forbes Mexico and Univision.

Crisis Communications

Laura Pennino has more than 40 years of experience as a writer, editor and public relations specialist who leverages her “Big Agency experience” and personalized approaches to support clients and media all over the world. Laura and her family have been rescuing and rehoming racehorses, dogs, cats, and goats for decades. Since August of 2020, she has fostered more than 50 dogs, cats, puppies and kittens and helped to place them for adoption with reputable rescue organizations.

Laura and Lisa will be presenting a multi-part series to help animal welfare organizations put their best foot forward. Tune in!

Laura Pennino has more than 40 years of experience as a writer, editor and public relations specialist who leverages her “Big Agency experience” and personalized approaches to support clients and media all over the world. Laura and her family have been rescuing and rehoming racehorses, dogs, cats, and goats for decades. Since August of 2020, she has fostered more than 50 dogs, cats, puppies and kittens and helped to place them for adoption with reputable rescue organizations.

Laura and Lisa will be presenting a multi-part series to help animal welfare organizations put their best foot forward. Tune in!

Laura Pennino has more than 40 years of experience as a writer, editor and public relations specialist who leverages her “Big Agency experience” and personalized approaches to support clients and media all over the world. Laura and her family have been rescuing and rehoming racehorses, dogs, cats, and goats for decades. Since August of 2020, she has fostered more than 50 dogs, cats, puppies and kittens and helped to place them for adoption with reputable rescue organizations.

Laura and Lisa will be presenting a multi-part series to help animal welfare organizations put their best foot forward. Tune in!

Would it be possible to drop our watermark (attached) into an unobtrusive corner of the video for the duration?

Special Guest Amanda Hanna DVM joins us on Conversations for the animals.

Shelby Bobosky is the Executive Director at the Texas Humane Legislation Network. She and her incredible team have been hard at work during the 88th Texas Legislative Session in Austin. There are several important animal welfare bills they are working to pass, and others they are working very hard to stop. Tune in as Shelby and Lisa review the most important bills being discussed right now, and learn how you can make an impact for Texas animals.

Mary Tipton is the cofounder of K-9 Angels Rescue. They have helped rehome over 12,000 shelter animals since 2011, through adoptions and transport. She was the first rescue to be allowed to pull from the Harris County Shelter in 2011, when they still had to pay to save animals.

Mary also helped create The Empty Shelter Project in 2016. TESP goes into underserved communities to vaccinate, microchip and alter owned animals for free. Since their inception, they have altered more than 11,000 animals, reducing the breeding population by significant numbers and saving tax payers millions of dollars that would have been spent on housing, feeding and caring for homeless shelter animals. In her lifetime, she hopes to see Houston's shelters completely empty of unwanted dogs and cats. Join Mary and Lisa as they talk about the vital work these organizations are doing to meet this goal.