Our Board

Janet Hendrickson is a Family Nurse Practitioner whose background includes practicing as a primary care provider and in the Emergency Department. She lives in Macon, Georgia with her four rescue dogs and three rescue cats.

Alex Bury has been a professional fundraiser for 15 years. She lives in Anchorage, Alaska with her rescued dog, Goldie.

Virginia Hass is a nurse practitioner and an associate clinical professor for the Master of Science — Nurse Practitioner Degree Program and the Master of Health Services — Physician Assistant Studies Degree Program at the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis. Dr. Hass also maintains a clinical practice in primary care at the Sacramento County Primary Care Center.

Judy has a professional background in sales leadership and change management and currently leads change and transformation initiatives for one of the world’s largest banks. She has led solutions towards improved performance, productivity, corporate growth and profitability in the financial and technology sectors, spanning as far as into Vladivostok, Russia.

Dr. Keisha R. Callins is a Georgia-trained Obstetrician/Gynecologist with Community Health Care Systems, Inc. (CHCS) and Professor at Mercer University School of Medicine. She is committed to providing healthcare services to rural and medically underserved areas. Her personal mission statement is, “You may not be able to change the world, but you can change the world of everyone with whom you interact.”

Rachel currently works as a mitigation specialist for the Federal Defenders of Connecticut, where she advocates for proportionate sentencing on behalf of indigent defendants in Federal Court. Previously, she worked for over 20 years with the Georgia Resource Center, a non-profit law office providing free representation to poor people on Georgia’s death row. 

Paulina Crook, DVM, MPVM, MPH is the Director of the Office for Global Programs in the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. She is also a faculty advisor for the Students for One Health (SOH) Club and serves as a mentor for a student-led One Health Clinic in Knights Landing, CA.

Minerva Rivera Daniel is a retired educator who enjoys spending time with family, friends, and her German Shepard Lola (pictured here).

Kristin Jankowski, VMD, CCRP is the Director of Veterinary Services at the Open Door Veterinary Collective and an Access to Care Veterinarian at the UC Davis One Health Institute. From 2020-2023 she served as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Small Animal Primary Care at UC Davis Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital. In 2022, she was invited to lead the development of the new Access to Care Program at UC Davis. Prior to 2020, she worked in general practice, specialty rehabilitation, and was the creator and director of One Health Delaware.

Dr. Jankowski is a 1994 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine. She completed her certification in canine rehabilitation through the University of Tennessee in 2014 and completed the Purdue University certificate program for Diversity and Inclusion in Veterinary Medicine in 2021. She has a special interest in education and research in delivering compassionate care to all pets and their families.

Henry Schwartz is a physician with training in internal medicine, pediatrics, endocrinology, and aerospace medicine. In his spare time, he enjoys running and hiking with his dogs.

Mark Starr was appointed by Governor Brown in 2012 as the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) Deputy Director for Environmental Health. He leads the Center for Environmental Health, which encompasses Food and Drug Safety, Cannabis Safety, Radiation Safety and Environmental Management programs, and supporting laboratory programs. Mark is also a Volunteer Clinical Professor for the Masters of Public Health program in the School of Medicine at UC Davis.

Brenden is a family practice doctor, currently practicing at the UC Davis Student Health and Wellness Center. He is also the Clinic Director of Clinica Tepati and the Knights Landing One Health Clinic (both volunteer, student-run clinics). He lives in Davis with Quetzal, one of the first dogs rescued by Janet in 2014.

Dr. Morris graduated from Mississippi State University College of Veterinary Medicine in 2004. She was in private small animal practice before joining the Humane Society of South Mississippi in 2007. There she served as Chief Veterinarian and became a fellow with the University of Wisconsin/ASPCA Shelter Medicine fellowship in 2014. Dr. Morris was the Director of Veterinary Outreach and now the Director of Animal Health at the Atlanta Humane Society since 2015. Her professional focus is on consulting with struggling shelters to improve animal well-being throughout the state of Georgia and beyond. Additionally she enjoys training veterinary students in shelter medicine and surgery to increase awareness in the veterinary community of the needs of shelters.