Brianna Lovell Myers, Executive Director (staff)
Brianna Lovell Myers leads United Spay Alliance, guiding the organization’s vision, strategy, and operations. As Executive Director, she oversees all programs and initiatives, ensuring that the mission to expand access to affordable, high-quality spay/neuter services is achieved. Bri works closely with the team, board, and partners to drive growth, advocate for change, and support the spay/neuter movement nationwide.
Bri is passionate about advancing spay/neuter as the cornerstone of effective animal care and protection. She joined United Spay Alliance as a contractor in 2020 and was appointed Executive Director in January 2025. In her role, she has led the organization in expanding its impact and setting ambitious goals for the future. Bri’s career in animal welfare began at Alley Cat Allies, and she later worked as a consultant, collaborating with grassroots rescues, TNR groups, and other animal welfare organizations. Bri holds a Master of Public Administration from West Virginia University and lives in Maryland with her husband, young son, and rescue pup, Blu (pictured).
For the past thirty years, Peter Marsh has helped government agencies, foundations, humane organizations, and advocacy groups throughout the United States develop and implement animal protection programs. During that time, he has helped put together successful statewide animal-related legislative initiatives in Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, and Vermont.
Cheri Storms has served in the animal welfare field since 2005. During her tenure with Pet Friendly Services of Indiana, she has helped grow the organization from a regional service provider to a statewide leader with the mission of dramatically reducing the numbers of unplanned and unwanted litters of cats and dogs – as well as protecting outdoor dogs and cats.
Stacy LeBaron has been involved in animal welfare for over 30 years. She spent 16 years as president of the Merrimack River Feline Rescue Society(
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Anne Lindsay is the Founder and current President of the Massachusetts Animal Coalition, which was established in 2000. She has worked in animal welfare since 1988, running a dog rescue organization for many years and simultaneously worked for 12 years as Director of Public Relations and Special Projects for the Northeast Animal Shelter in Salem, MA. She is a past President and was a longtime Board Member for the New England Federation of Humane Societies and is currently a Board Member for the State of Massachusetts Animal Resource Team (SMART). In 2010 she earned her Masters Degree in Counseling Psychology from Lesley University. With her animal welfare experience and counseling skills, Anne has helped shelters with mediation, team building, and other issues specific to animal welfare organizations. Over the years, Anne has spoken at national conferences on a variety of animal welfare issues and has consulted with states, smaller communities, and individual shelters to help them form animal welfare coalitions and work on board development, compassion fatigue, and related issues. She and her veterinarian husband currently live with (only) 3 dogs, 2 cats, and 3 chickens.
Dr. Becky Morrow is a graduate of The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine. She transitioned into academia after six years of small animal practice and was introduced to shelter medicine through a service-learning project with a local HQHVSN organization. She became fully immersed in shelter medicine while assisting with a large-scale animal cruelty case – managing the veterinary care of hundreds of cats for over a year and providing forensic documentation and testimony for the court. She earned a master’s degree and two graduate certificates (veterinary forensics and shelter medicine) from the University of Florida and became a Certified Animal Welfare Administrator (CAWA). Dr. Morrow has since performed tens of thousands of spay/neuters, taught HQHVSN to veterinary students and veterinarians, and worked on dozens of forensic cases. She is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at University of Florida Shelter Medicine Distance Program, an Assistant Teaching Professor at Penn State University, and the President and Medical Director of Frankie’s Friends in Pittsburgh.
Kathie Nelson is a founding member and the current President of the Oregon Spay/Neuter Fund, a grassroots animal advocacy organization active since the early 1980’s. OSNF is also the Oregon affiliate of the United Spay Alliance.
Dawn has worked in professional for profit and not for profit roles for over 30 years. In those years, her expertise has been financial and operational turnaround, program development and acquisition. She has spent the last 20 years in non-profit management ranging from healthcare, the arts and historical preservation to her most recent position in animal welfare the last 6 years.
In 1976, Dr. W. Marvin Mackie discovered his mission with the effort to humanely control pet overpopulation. Partnered with a colleague, he opened a spay/neuter clinic each year for the next six years. Breaking ground by demonstrating new standards of production, he transformed the image and status of the spay/neuter clinic. In 1989, he began promoting early-age spay/neuter by distributing a well-done amateur video demonstrating the ease with which the surgery could be performed and the rapid recovery of his young patients. In 1991, he partnered with stakeholders to effectively include feral cats. During his last full year of clinic ownership in 2007, he added 1,562 ferals to the clinic’s scheduled 7,276 patients using his efficient, minimally invasive, safe surgical system.