Sheltering Animals of Abuse Victims

Sheltering Animals of Abuse Victims

SAAV

The Board of Directors

SAAV Megan Senatori's much loved MavMegan A. Senatori
Co-founded the SAAV Program with Pam Alexander in 2001. She currently serves as President. Megan is a partner at DeWitt Ross & Stevens S.C., where she practices complex civil litigation and appeals. She is also an Adjunct Faculty Member at the University of Wisconsin Law School and Marquette University Law School where she teaches a course in Animal Law.

SAAV Megan Senatori's much loved MavPam Alexander
Co-founder of the SAAV Program and currently serves as Secretary. She is the Animal Law Program Director of the Animal Legal Defense Fund where she works to develop animal law programs in law schools across the country. Pam also teaches a course in Animal Law at the University of Chicago Law School.

SAAV Megan Senatori's much loved MavSara Krall
Crisis Line Coordinator at Domestic Abuse Intervention Services (DAIS). Ms. Krall graduated from UW-Madison with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology in 2005 and a Master’s of Social Work in 2007. In her role at DAIS, Ms. Krall supervises the 25-30 volunteers covering the 24 hour crisis line and facilitates a drop-in community support group each week.

SAAV Megan Senatori's much loved MavCheri Carr
Cheri Carr is an Animal Services Officer for Madison and Dane County Environmental Health. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Wildlife Biology from Iowa State University, and has been active with both wild and domestic animals for most of her life, and professionally for nearly 20 years. She has been an Animal Humane Officer in Dane County since 1996, and administered the animal intake portion of the SAAV program for several years through Dane County Humane Society.

A heartfelt thank you to:

Shannon Barry, Executive Director of Domestic Abuse Intervention Services, and Pam McCloud-Smith, Executive Director of the Dane County Humane Society, for your enthusiasm, support, and leadership in making The SAAV Program possible.

SAAV Foster Families, for opening your homes and your hearts to the little known victims of domestic abuse – family pets.

Our grantors, The Evjue Foundation, the Greater Milwaukee Foundation, and the Engelsma Foundation, whose generosity is what makes our work possible.

Our individual donors, who selflessly invest their time and money to support our mission.

You, for taking time to visit us online. Now, spread the word. Family violence affects pets too.