Big Dog Master Class Block 7 - Get Dogs Into Great Homes Faster (50 minutes total)

Director of Internal Operations at Pima Animal Care Center

Clare Callison is the Maddie’s® Director of National Pet Supply and Demand for American Pets Alive! and serves on the Board of Directors for CARE (Companions and Animals for Reform and Equity). She provides guidance and support to help organizations build robust lifesaving programs and improve operations to better serve people and pets. Clare specializes in helping organizations grow their transport relationships and increase their lifesaving through rescue partnerships and open adoption practices. Before joining American Pets Alive!, she was the Director of Operations for San Antonio Pets Alive for 5 years. Because of her heavy involvement, San Antonio has gone from a 28 percent live release rate to a 90 percent live release rate in over three years. Clare enjoys helping others seek lifesaving solutions to common challenges that exist in working in a high-volume, fast-paced animal welfare organization.

Columbia Law School grad turned writer, editor, communications professional, and animal advocate.

I was The Huffington Post's animal welfare editor. My stories about cats, dogs, and other critters have been published in The Dodo, The Washington Post, Slate, The Today Show's website, the American Bar Association Journal, and many other publications. I now write, edit, and consult for animal nonprofits, and other clients. Please reach out to chat about possible projects we could work on together.

My novel Your Robot Dog Will Die was published by Soho Teen in 2018. Robot Dog won Creative Loafing's Best of the Bay award for best local author, was one of YALSA’s 2019 Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers, and was a Children's Book Council Hot Off the Press pick. Robot Dog has been optioned by Centerboro Productions to turn into an animated series!

Please feel free to get in touch here on Linkedin, at aringreenwood at gmail.com, on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/aringreenwood), or on Twitter (https://twitter.com/arin_twit).

Caitlin is passionate about working with shelters and rescues to reimagine the way they tell their stories and connect with new audiences. She has served in the animal welfare field since 2008 and early on had the honor of working closely with diverse organizations across the U.S. to maximize resources, redesign policies, & find life-changing marketing solutions. In 2015 she got her MPA with a concentration in nonprofit management and in 2021 she began teaching shelter marketing for the University of Florida Master's in Shelter Medicine program. She currently shares her life with a petite brindle pit bull named Sally.

Kasey Spain is Maddie’s® Director of Marketing and Communications for American Pets Alive! and the Human Animal Support Services project. With a background as a Creative Director specializing in design and branding, Kasey has worked with brands such as Neiman Marcus, Lincoln Property Company, Chuy’s, Choctaw Casinos, TIGI Haircare and many more.

Kasey previously served as the Marketing and Communications Manager for the Austin Animal Center, the city’s municipal shelter. She received an Austin Addy Award and an Emmy nomination for her work on a lost pet awareness campaign produced for Austin Animal Center. As part of her contribution to the HASS project, Kasey leads the Marketing and Communications Working Group and Job-Alike peer group, and is passionate about helping HASS partner organization’s marketing staff to transform their services and communities through effective communication.