People Are Animals Too, Darnit!

Diane Robinson of the HSUS joins Mandy to discuss disaster response and relief as it relates to animal welfare.

Contact Diane: [email protected]

Jennifer Blough (rhymes with plow) is a licensed professional counselor who is certified in compassion fatigue, pet loss grief, and trauma. She is the owner of Deepwater Counseling and The Compassion Fatigue Couch. Jennifer is also the author of To Save a Starfish: A Compassion Fatigue Workbook for the Animal Welfare Warrior. As a vegan and former shelter worker and animal control officer, Jen has an extensive background in animal welfare and animal rights, and is passionate about helping those who love, care for, and work to protect animals.

Contact info:

https://www.compassionfatiguecouch.com

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Dr. Geller is a graduate of Colorado State College of Veterinary Medicine. After graduating in 1995, he became an emergency veterinarian in Colorado for 20 years, and started up 4 emergency clinics. He became Board Certified as Veterinary Practitioner in Canine and Feline Medicine in 2010. In 2015 he founded The Street Dog Coalition, a non-profit charity, which currently has teams in around 50 US cities across the US providing free medical care to pets of the homeless.  

Currently he is working on setting up a One Health Mobile Outreach program to provide free veterinary and health care services to at-risk pet owners, and their pets, in underserved areas of Eastern Colorado.

He was named Veterinarian of the Year by the Colorado Veterinary Medical Association for 2020.

Thestreetdogcoalition.org

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 Brittany is a New England native who has spent the last 12 years getting involved in the shelter/rescue community all throughout New England, the Midwest and now Pacific Northwest. Starting out her career in higher education, Brittany takes her experience in Social Sciences and her Masters of Organizational Leadership to implement sound research practices into the program development for under-resourced shelters and rescues. Brittany serves West Valley Humane Society as the Development and Education Coordinator. Her role encompasses development of shelter programs, research, community outreach, humane education and grant writing. Her passion areas include: community cat programs and initiatives, bully breed advocacy, humane education, and low income animal services.

From Spencer: "I have dedicated my life to positive, servant leadership at some of the top animal welfare organizations across the country including, the Dumb Friends League, Best Friends Animal Society, the Humane Society of Utah and Pasco County Animal Services. I am proud to lead a team of people, dedicated to creating, nurturing and preserving the human-animal bond for the people and pets in our community. I am a graduate of the Best Friends Animal Society Executive Leadership Certification Program, the Pasco County Leadership Development Program and the Strategic Government Solutions Servant Leadership Certification. I (will soon) have a Masters of Interdisciplinary Studies from Southern Utah University in Contemporary Animal Services Leadership. I am a certified Green Belt in Lean Six Sigma and an avid teacher of the Enneagram personality typing system for professional growth. I have a passion for integrating statistics and data driven decision making in lifesaving shelter operations and future planning."

Spencer joins Mandy to share how thinking outside the box brought huge results for Pasco County Animal Services.

Mandy discusses the problems with extremism in animal welfare and offers a better approach.

Jessica Martin has dedicated nearly three decades to helping
children, families, and animals in need. She has become
exceptionally skilled in organizational planning, philanthropic
strategy and system development, nonprofit policy, technical
writing, grants management, and major gifts programs.

For many years, Jessica served as the Director of Foundation Giving and Major Gifts at one of the nation’s largest children’s hospitals. With her leadership, the department achieved a historical $118 million in philanthropic revenue with nearly $36 million in new grants.
Her experience also includes directing the fund development efforts of a nationwide nonprofit dedicated to victims of child abuse and neglect, as well as an organizational restructure. There, she secured national public, private and government funding, successfully increasing revenue by 300% in her first two years.

Jessica joins Mandy to discuss shelter / funder relations in this two-part series.

Jessica Martin has dedicated nearly three decades to helping
children, families, and animals in need. She has become
exceptionally skilled in organizational planning, philanthropic
strategy and system development, nonprofit policy, technical
writing, grants management, and major gifts programs.

For many years, Jessica served as the Director of Foundation Giving and Major Gifts at one of the nation’s largest children’s hospitals. With her leadership, the department achieved a historical $118 million in philanthropic revenue with nearly $36 million in new grants.
Her experience also includes directing the fund development efforts of a nationwide nonprofit dedicated to victims of child abuse and neglect, as well as an organizational restructure. There, she secured national public, private and government funding, successfully increasing revenue by 300% in her first two years.

Jessica joins Mandy to discuss shelter / funder relations in this two-part series.

People Are Animals Too Darnit host, Mandy Evans, is the executive director of an animal shelter in north Idaho.  The animal shelter just launched a rebrand campaign to Better Together Animal Alliance.  Mandy talks with Lisa Gerber of Big Leap Creative about the rebranding effort and the purpose of it.

bettertogetheranimalalliance.org