Meet Stacy LeBaron -- A Crusader for Community Cats
Once branded as feral cats, felines who live in colonies outside are being now identified as community cats. And they need our help. Tune in to this special episode of the Oh Behave Show with Host Arden Moore. Her special guest, Stacy LeBaron created the Community Cats Podcast and is the force behind the upcoming 2018 Online Cat Conference. This virtual convention "airs" Jan. 26-28 and we hope you register and learn more from community cats from top experts in this field who will be speakers.
BIO:
Stacy LeBaron has been involved in animal welfare for over 20 years. She currently hosts a weekly podcast called the Community Cats Podcast(www.communitycatspodcast.com) where she interviews nationally and internationally renowned experts helping with the problem of cat over population and cat welfare. She is recently launching the first online cat conference to be held January 26-28, 2018.
Previous to starting the Community Cats Podcast, she served for sixteen years as President of the Merrimack River Feline Rescue Society (www.mrfrs.org). Since the organization’s founding in 1992, the MRFRS has assisted over 105,000 cats and kittens through a variety of innovative programs. Among the MRFRS’s programs are two mobile spay/neuter clinics, known as the Catmobiles, and an adoption center in Salisbury, MA.
During her tenure with MRFRS, Stacy served as a board member and oversaw the MRFRS mentoring program as well as co-chaired the organization’s Development Committee. The MRFRS mentoring program, which began in 2011, assisted 11,000 cats through its work with seventy-seven different animal welfare groups in fourteen states. Stacy also facilitates two smaller coalitions in Massachusetts, the Boston Homeless Cats group and Merrimack Valley Partnership.
Stacy is a current member of the Shelter Medicine Committee at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, Advisor to the Massachusetts Animal Coalition, Vice President of the Board for PAWSitive Pantry in Vermont, and program advisor for HubCats Chelsea. She is a past board member and treasurer of the Massachusetts Animal Coalition and an advisor to New England Federation of Humane Societies and World Animal Protection. She serves as the current administrative trustee for the LeBaron Foundation.
Stacy graduated from Vassar College with a focus in Urban Studies, and also attended Boston University, where she studied City Planning and Urban Affairs. She now lives in Vermont with her husband, son, daughter and two cats.