“I first started to volunteer when I moved from Germany to California and wanted to meet people with similar interest like mine. AT that time my focus was more on helping by donating my time to help walking dogs. This quickly extended when I saw that the shelter (Palm Springs Animal Shelter) had a photography team and was looking for additional helper. I turned my passion for travel photography into an obsession to photograph animals and help them get more exposure. The animal who made sure I would continue with this path is Blu. When I met her she had been for more than 4 years at the shelter and not a single person in that time had requested to meet her. What started as a trial to see how she is outside the shelter and to get some good picture of her outside the shelter environment ended in me first fostering her and then adopting her. She has changed my life as much as I have changed hers and she motivates me every day to continue with what I am doing” – Jasmina Sumanovic
Caitlin Quinn
Caitlin is passionate about working with shelters and rescues to reimagine the way they tell their stories and connect with new audiences. She has served in the animal welfare field since 2008 and early on had the honor of working closely with diverse organizations across the U.S. to maximize resources, redesign policies, and find life-changing marketing solutions. In 2015, she got her MPA with a concentration in nonprofit management and in 2021, she began teaching marketing + communications for the University of Florida Master of Veterinary Science, Concentration in Shelter Medicine program. She lives in NY with a petite brindle pit bull named Sally who owns her heart.
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