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Michael Barrett Michael Barrett, Vice President, Grants Management
Related Links Jodi Lytle Buckman, CAWA, Senior Director of Community Initiatives
Currently serving as a member of the Board of Directors for the NFHS, Jodi has previously served on numerous state and national boards including most recently SAWA and the Ohio Federated Humane Societies. Jodi lives in Worthington, OH, with her husband, David; children, Sam and Zoë, and canine companions Skye and Sophie. Sue Clement, Senior Web Director
Joe Elmore, CAWA, CFRE, PHR, Senior Director, Community Initiatives
Joe led the recovery efforts of 9 hurricanes and various other disasters; in 1998, by appointment from the Governor, he led the restructuring of the Virgin Islands Emergency Management Council, the oversight body responsible for all emergency operations in the Territory. Joe has been recognized by the Governors of Washington and the Virgin Islands, has received the American Red Cross Tiffany Award for Management Excellence, and was awarded the U.S. Department of Defense Medal in Operation Desert Storm. Kathleen Makolinski, DVM, Senior Director, Spay/Neuter Programs
Related Links Lila Miller, DVM, Vice President, Veterinary Outreach
Related Links Nancy Perry, Senior Vice President, Government Relations
Jacque Lynn Schultz, MA CPDT-KA, Senior Director, Community Initiatives
Related Links Jacque's Dos and Don'ts for First-Time Grant Seekers Margaret Slater, DVM, PhD, Senior Director of Veterinary Epidemiology
Related Links 10 Tips for Enrichment of Shelter Cats & Dogs Miranda Spindel, DVM, MS, Senior Director, Shelter Medicine, Veterinary Outreach
Related Links Getting to Know Dr. Miranda Spindel Jill Van Tuyl, Community Initiatives Director
Emily Weiss, Ph.D, CAAB, Vice President, Shelter Research and Development
Dr. Weiss is a section editor of the Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science, and has written numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. She has traveled across North America lecturing on various areas of applied animal behavior, and has been featured nationally on radio, TV, and print. Related Links Stephen L. Zawistowski, Ph. D., CAAB, Executive Vice President, National Programs; Science Advisor
In 1989 Psychologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals named him Psychologist of the Year for outstanding contributions to animal welfare science. St. John's University presented him with the Patrick Daly Memorial Award for a career in education marked by compassion and commitment in Spring 2002. In 2008 he received a Public Service Award from the Department of Justice for his work on the Michael Vick dogfighting case. Dr. Zawistowski is a father and grandfather and lives on Staten Island, NY, with his wife Jane, a beagle and two tabby cats. Related Links: |
Michael Barrett oversees more than $10 million in annual grants to shelters and other animal welfare organizations in the United States. He has worked and volunteered in philanthropy and/or the nonprofit sector for the past 17 years in a variety of fields, including theater, child welfare, HIV/AIDS end-of-life care, education and health care. Originally from Oregon, Michael grew up with cats and dogs well into his adult life, and in 2010, he adopted Binah, a Chihuahua rescued from a puppy mill and rehabilitated by the ASPCA.
Jodi works with shelters in region covering seven states and serves as the liaison for two ASPCA Partnership Communities; Shelby County, AL, and Sacramento, CA. She works closely with other national groups including the Society of Animal Welfare Administrators (SAWA), the National Federation of Humane Societies (NFHS) and the Asilomar Accords workgroup. With over 20 years of experience working in animal welfare and protection, she's served as an Executive Director for shelters in Maine, Minnesota and Ohio, and worked for the American Humane Association, based in Denver, as Director of Animal Programs. Jodi achieved the Certified Animal Welfare Administrator (CAWA) designation in 2006.
Sue oversees all online channels that speak to animal sheltering professionals—ASPCApro.org, the daily blog Shelters' Edge, the webinar series, and an active presence on social media. She entered the field of animal welfare through the internet as the Executive Director of PetShelter Network, one of the first online resources for adoption. PetShelter Network quickly changed the face of adoptions in the Pacific Northwest as the internet opened up possibilities for shelter and rescues to reach their audience. She has facilitated workshops on open adoptions and loves seeing groups stretch in their thinking and practices that help animals. 
Joe joined the ASPCA in 2006 to lead its long-term recovery efforts in Southern Mississippi in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Currently, as Senior Director of Community Initiatives, he serves as liaison to the ASPCA Partnership in Charleston, SC and manages various projects. He was born and raised in the Deep South, is an alumni of the University of Alabama's School of Engineering and has led the turnaround of 4 nonprofit organizations as their chief executive. 
After graduating from the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University, Dr. Makolinski worked as an associate veterinarian caring for small companion animals for five years. She then served as Director of Veterinary Services for a limited admission animal shelter. Since then, Makolinski co-founded and served as president of Feral Cat FOCUS, a community advocacy group for free-roaming cats. She also co-founded Operation PETS, a stationary spay/neuter clinic in Western New York. At the ASPCA, Makolinski consults with the Mobile Spay/Neuter Clinics and helps various communities implement and enhance high-quality, high-volume spay/neuter programs. 
Dr. Miller is a graduate of the veterinary college at Cornell University and has over 30 years of experience at the ASPCA. She is also adjunct faculty at Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Miller taught the first shelter medicine class at a veterinary college in 1999 at Cornell and is co-editor of the only two textbooks on shelter medicine: Shelter Medicine for Veterinarians and Staff and Infectious Disease Management in Animal Shelters. She co-founded the Association of Shelter Veterinarians (ASV) in 2001 and served as a member of the task force and editorial group that researched and wrote the ASV Guidelines for Standards of Care of Shelter Animals. She lectures extensively on shelter medicine and anti-cruelty topics at universities and conferences, organized the first shelter medicine conference in Turkey and was presented with awards in animal welfare 
Nancy oversees the ASPCA's legislative efforts and public policy at the local, state and federal government levels. Under Nancy's leadership, the ASPCA Government Relations team works closely with lawmakers and citizen advocates to secure the strongest possible protections for animals through the passage of humane legislation and regulations. Nancy has testified before U.S. House and Senate committees and worked directly with legislators on pending federal and state legislation on puppy mills, horse protection, and other high priority bills. Nancy has also been a key architect and leader on more than 20 successful state ballot measures to protect animals since 1995. Nancy lives in the Washington, D.C., area with her husband, her two rescued dogs, Ellie and Summer, her three former feral cats, Emma, June and Sylvester, and Sam, a rescued bird. 
Jacque Schultz has been on the ASPCA staff for over twenty years. She oversees the ASPCA's equine grants programs and is communications supervisor for the ASPCA Partnership initiative. She has grown the ASPCA Equine Fund from a distribution of $250,000 in 2007 to $1.4 million in 2011. She is responsible for creating the Million Dollar Rescuing Racers Initiative, facilitating the formation of the San Diego Horse Coalition and most recently, designing and executing the TX/OK Equine Hay Bale-Out, a $250,000 program to feed at-risk horses during the drought. Jacque is an award-winning author of dozens of articles on dog and cat behavior and breed profiles and has co-authored The ASPCA Complete Guide to Dogs and two new books in the ASPCA Kids series – Having Fun with Your Dog and Amazing Pet Tricks. Jacque has presented workshops on fundraising for equine rescues, animal behavior, pit bull issues, shelter enrichment and breed identification at more than one hundred animal welfare conferences.
Dr. Slater obtained her DVM from Cornell University in 1986 and spent a year in small animal practice. She returned to Cornell to complete a PhD in epidemiology in 1990 and subsequently joined the faculty at Texas A&M University. Prior to joining the ASCPA in 2008, Dr. Slater was a Professor of Epidemiology at the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at Texas A&M University. Her focus has been on health and disease in companion animals, including research on chronic diseases, questionnaire evaluation and pet overpopulation. Dr. Slater is internationally recognized for her work on the sources, problems and potential solutions for free-roaming cats and dogs. She has been invited to speak at numerous local, regional and national animal welfare meetings including the Alliance for Contraception in Cats and Dogs, PetSmart Feline Forum, Animal Welfare Federation of New Jersey and New England Federation of Humane Societies. Dr. Slater currently provides epidemiological and statistical support for staff across the ASPCA. Her emphasis is on animal shelter-focused research ranging from fee-waived cat programs and determining if a cat in a shelter is feral or frightened, to assessing the impact of spay/neuter on shelter intake. 
Dr. Spindel believes that the world within an animal shelter is rich in opportunity for veterinary education and research integrated with improving the lives of animals. Dr. Spindel developed and taught a junior shelter medicine course for five years at Colorado State University and is currently an affiliate faculty member teaching shelter medicine there. She initiated and completed the first residency in shelter medicine with a Master of Clinical Sciences offered though Colorado State University. Dr. Spindel is a two-term past President of the Association of Shelter Veterinarians, a member of the ASV Shelter Standards Task Force and serves as the Veterinary Information Network’s shelter medicine consultant. Her research interests are canine influenza virus, upper respiratory diseases and infectious disease management. Dr. Spindel lives in Colorado and works with shelters across the country—shelter medicine is her true passion. 
Jill has been in the nonprofit sector for nearly 20 years in positions ranging from publicity director and vice president of operations to executive director. She is certified as an animal control officer in New Jersey, and has additional certifications in National Wildfire Training, FEMA and Incident Command. Jill was a key presenter in a recent FEMA video for national firefighter training on animal behavior and the rescue of animals in disasters, and also managed the field operations division of the Arizona Humane Society featured in Animal Planet Heroes Phoenix. Jill has experience working in limited-admission facilities, government agencies, and medium and large open-intake facilities.
Dr. Weiss designs and develops a variety of research projects on feral cats, behavior modification, targeted spay/neuter, ID tagging, and fee-waived adoptions. She has developed several assessment tools for shelter animals, including the SAFER test, a behavior assessment used by shelters throughout the country, Meet Your Match™ Canine-ality™ and Puppy-ality™, and Feline-ality™, the first research-based adoption program for shelter cats. She directed the development and use of the ASPCA Animal Stats Dashboard, the tool used by the ASPCA to measure progress in shelters and spay/neuter clinics. Recently, Dr. Weiss' work has focused on developing program and process to increase the Live Release Rate in shelters. 
Dr. Zawistowski has been with the ASPCA since 1988. His deep concern for animal welfare grew out of his work as a caretaker for laboratory animals, while earning his BA in biology from Canisius College in 1977. A well-known speaker on education, animal behavior and animal welfare issues, he is a frequent guest on television and radio, and is often quoted in newspaper and magazine articles. Published in a number of scientific journals, he is also the founding co-editor of the Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science. While at the ASPCA he has authored, edited and consulted on over 20 books on animals and pet care.
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