Beth Gammie is the Director of Field Services for RedRover, a national animal welfare organization headquartered in Sacramento, California.  In this role, Beth leads the RedRover Responders program which provides emergency animal sheltering in natural disasters and large-scale cruelty seizures throughout the United States and Canada.  Prior to this position, she was a volunteer with RedRover and other animal welfare groups. 

Jennifer Gardner is the Senior Program Officer for the Disaster Response & Risk Reduction program at the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW).  Jennifer deploys to disasters around the world such as Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines in 2013, the Nepal Earthquake in 2015, and most recently Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas last year.  In the United States, she supports field rescue and emergency shelters during events like Hurricane Florence in North Carolina and the Camp Fire in California.  When not working in active disasters, Jennifer works to build capacity with local organizations in disaster prone regions through trainings in Disaster Management and Field Operations.  She also works with government agencies to develop plans for managing animals in disasters and to implement community risk mitigation projects.