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Liz Finch, Senior Manager, Community Programs and Services
Liz Finch is Senior Manager, Community Programs and Services and has been the animal help manager for Best Friends since March 2008. She managed the 14-person Animal Help department and ensures that they have the support they need to work on their cases.
From September 2005 to March 2008, Liz was an animal help specialist at Best Friends. She responded to e-mails, letters and phone calls from the public requesting advice or assistance with animal welfare issues. Her focus was on cases in the Los Angeles area. Animal help requests range from people needing input to solve behavioral issues with their pets, to people who come across strays and want advice on finding new homes for them, to large-scale situations, such as hoarding or sanctuaries closing down, where hundreds of animals might need emergency care and placement into new homes.
Before coming to Best Friends, Liz lived in Los Angeles, where she worked as a freelance and on-staff writer for medical publications. In 2000, Liz and a friend started their own nonprofit cat rescue organization; in a five-year period, they rescued and rehomed approximately 450 cats. She was a volunteer member of the Event Planning Committee for Los Angeles city shelters, and participated in their mobile adoption events for three years. She also volunteered for Catnippers, a highly successful feral cat TNR program that is partially funded by Best Friends and run by volunteers.
What does Liz like about working at Best Friends? She loves feeling that she's making a difference in the lives of animals and the people who love them. She loves being able to bring her dog to work and hang out with four awesome office cats. And she loves being surrounded by people who are all at the sanctuary for the same purpose.
Liz shares her home with Sully (the Homer Simpson of dogs); Bilbo Baggins, a gigantic rescued rabbit; and a group of cats who defected from Los Angeles with her. The cats, she says, couldn't be happier to be living in a place where they have 24-hour access to a cattery to enjoy the great outdoors.
