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Lacy Bell is a transit planning professional who is passionate about improving transportation systems to provide equitable mobility options for all individuals. She received her BS and MS transportation engineering degrees from Georgia Tech. She loves that here in Seattle dogs are allowed to accompany their humans on the bus!

During the pandemic, her family adopted their wonderful Pitbull terrier (Boogie) from the Seattle Animal Shelter. Soon after that she began volunteering with the SASF Auction Committee to support the foundation’s mission to provide resources to successfully transition animals to their forever homes.

Lacy and her husband Aaron spend much of their free time watching baseball as their 14 year old son is an avid baseball player and fan with a pretty wicked left handed change-up. Go Mariners! They are somewhat recent transplants to the PNW having relocated from Denver five years ago.

Mindy is a marketing and communications professional and has worked with numerous clients in public, private and non-profit sectors. From road safety and food waste to educating Washingtonians about the new REAL ID law – Mindy has spent the past 12 years working on public awareness campaigns.

She’s been volunteering with the Seattle Animal Shelter on and off for several years and was on the auction committee in 2022. She was impressed by the generosity of Seattle’s animal-loving community with record funds raised! She is excited to be an official member of the SASF Board this year – serving as auction co-chair.

Mindy and her family adopted their dog Charlie Spot Fitzgerald from the SAS in 2017. He is the sweetest most lovable 100+ pound lap dog they could have ever imagined. His daycare describes him as the big black dog that goes boof, boof.

Mindy is passionate about animals and fundraising for their welfare. She loves spending time in her garden planting, weeding and just enjoying the dirt. Her husband is a transplant from Boston, so she’s learned to love the Boston Celtics (go C’s) and really enjoys a good lobster roll. She’s still working on her golf game.

Mindy is a true PNW’er having grown up in Edmonds and graduated from the University of Washington with a BA in communications. Go Dawgs!

She’s previously been a volunteer and board member at NAMI Seattle and enjoys volunteering with Ballard Food Bank.

Julia Leffler is a marketing professional with over a decade of experience in the entertainment industry. She has spent the last three years in Seattle and is honored to be able to help the animals of this city. She holds a BA from New York University and recently completed her MBA at University of Washington’s Foster School of Business. In her free time, she enjoys playing board games with friends and spending time in the park with her boys – her husband, son, and rescue pup.

Paige España is a nonprofit professional with a decade of animal welfare experience, most recently serving as the director of a grassroots cat and dog rescue in Portland, Oregon, where she oversaw operations, communications, and fundraising and helped lead the organization’s inaugural pursuit of social justice education. Currently, she works as part of the administration and operations team at Housing Development Consortium, the affordable housing membership association of Seattle-King County. Paige holds an MA in Writing & Publishing from Portland State University, a Certificate in Nonprofit Executive Leadership from Willamette Valley Development Officers, and is presently learning Spanish poco a poco.

She believes in kindness, curiosity, and conscientious learning as core tools to honor the contributions that each of us bring to our work and to the world. She is thrilled to be a part of the SASF board and collaborate with a dedicated and compassionate group to make the world a better place for companion animals and their people. In her free time, Paige enjoys life with her partner and their pittie, exploring the great outdoors, a dog-friendly restaurant, or a good story together.