Meet the

Team

Hi! It's nice to meet you! We are the faces behind the endless kitten emails. Along with our team of amazing med techs, admins, and volunteers -- more on them coming, so check back soon! -- we work hard to get thousands of kittens each year into foster homes.

Jennifer Parks

Neonatal Foster Program Manager

First joined APA! as a neonatal kitten foster parent
Loves hissy kittens and feral angry momcats

Katherine Schroeder

Neonatal Foster Assistant Manager

Obsessed with incontinent and special-needs kittens
All 4 of her cats are former bottle babies!

Jessica Heilman

Neonatal Foster Support Specialist

Longest-serving member of our little team
Fosters exclusively ringworm kittens!

Amanda Bestor-Siegal

Neonatal Foster Support Lead

Fosters mostly sick / underweight orphans, with a soft spot for calici kitties!
Will gleefully train anyone on subQ injections and tube feeding

Xena Rivers

Foster Recruitment Lead

She started her career at APA! as an overnight bottle baby feeder
Fostering helped her survive the initial COVID experience, and she is so excited to introduce folks to the joy of fostering!

Hannah Gil

Foster Training Lead

Developed the trainings that all of our fosters take, and manages the team of volunteers who do our 1:1 feeding trainings
Has a soft spot for house panthers!

Vanessa Cahill

Neonatal Foster Coordinator (weekends)

The newest member of our team!
Spent 3 years fostering neonates with APA! before officially joining the team
Has a soft spot for ringworm and FeLV+ kittens

Rebecca Polakowski

Neonatal Foster Coordinator

Started off fostering with medically-intensive kittens - nothing scares her!
Has two cats, but thinks it's about to become 3...
(Updated to note that it did in fact become 3 within Rebecca's first 6 months of working at APA!)