Kim Saunders
Kim was an attorney with a passion for animal rescue. In 1998, she left her law practice after witnessing firsthand how Petfinder.com doubled the adoptions of the foster-based rescue group for which she volunteered. Petfinder.com is the first, largest and most successful homeless pet network on the Internet, offering shelters and placement groups a free website and the ability to advertise their adoptable pets in a searchable database.
As director of shelter outreach and public relations at Petfinder.com, Kim has been instrumental in increasing the number of organizations benefitting from Petfinder's resources from 400 in 1998 to over 6,000 today. She continues to work to increase services to Petfinder members and to help them strengthen their adoption programs.
Kim is proud to serve as vice president of the board of directors of the Animal Welfare Federation of New Jersey (AWFNJ), the nonprofit state organization that acts as a unifying voice for all New Jersey animal protection agencies and as an informational and educational resource for its members.
Kim has been certified as a New Jersey animal control officer, but is most comfortable in her role as a top-notch foster home dedicated to those "harder to place" dogs. Her permanent family includes her dogs Kona and Mocha, and her cat Meg.
