Texans working together for animals.

Maggie combines legislative experience with professional communications expertise. She is founder and president of Friends of Animal Care Services San Antonio and previously served on the Bexar County Animal Control Board. Her work connects public policy, municipal sheltering and the communities they serve.

Lindsay brings experience in transactional law and the Texas legislative process. An attorney for a public university, she supports the organization’s work to improve animal welfare through practical legislation and sustained public advocacy.

Rebecca is Chief Operations Officer of Yaqui Animal Rescue in the Rio Grande Valley. She leads daily operations and frontline rescue efforts for a sanctuary serving more than 200 animals, while building partnerships around cruelty prevention, veterinary access, humane education and community engagement.

Her background includes work with courts, local and federal agencies and municipalities. She holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Houston and a master’s in public administration from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.

Amy is a retired educator with more than 15 years of nonprofit board leadership and fundraising experience. Her professional work includes consulting, curriculum development and leading organizational training and structural change in education and nonprofits.

A passionate animal advocate, she has spent more than 15 years promoting humane animal laws in Texas. She served as president of the Texas Humane Network, led the initiative to create an educational humane curriculum, and helped build Junior Advocate Chapters across DFW with students from many backgrounds. She volunteers with local shelters and works with lawmakers to support humane legislation across Texas.

Amy earned her bachelor’s degree with honors from the University of Pittsburgh’s Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences and a master’s in secondary education from Duquesne University, and continued postgraduate work in brain-based learning and curriculum development at the University of Chicago.

Born and raised in West Texas, Matthew earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in history at the University of Texas Permian Basin. He then founded Creek Pipe Company, LLC, a pipeline construction company in the Permian Basin, and as its president managed oil and gas projects for some of the largest production companies in the world until the company was acquired in 2017.

Matthew earned his juris doctor at SMU Dedman School of Law, where he was a member of the Criminal Law Society and represented indigent clients in Dallas County through the SMU Criminal Law Clinic. He went on to serve as a prosecutor in the Collin and Dallas County District Attorney’s Offices, including as chief misdemeanor prosecutor in three Collin County courts before moving to the felony division. He is now an assistant public defender at the Dallas County Public Defender’s Office.

Abby is a project manager whose professional experience spans consulting, business transformation and technology. Across North Texas, she has supported shelter advocacy, responsible pet ownership and legislative reform, and has fostered animals with a wide range of medical needs.

She earned her bachelor’s degree from Oklahoma State University’s Spears School of Business. Her undergraduate honors thesis examined deceptive practices in the retail sale of dogs and cats and their effect on animal welfare.