The North Country Animal League’s Board of Trustees announced that Deb Fennell was hired as Executive Director. Fennell has over 20 years leadership experience in the non-profit and for-profit sectors as director of the Smugglers’ Notch Ski Club, camp director of YWCA of Vermont’s Camp Hochelaga and camp director of Windridge Camp at Teela-Wooket. Most recently she was in management at Smugglers’ Notch Resort.
She also has extensive not-for-profit board experience with service to a number of community and state-wide boards including as a founding board member of the Cambridge After-School Program and the Cambridge Tennis Association, the Vermont Alpine Racing Association, and the Vermont Camp Association including five years as chairperson. She also served for seven years on the American Camp Association-New England board, a regional New England board for the children’s camp industry, including service on the Executive Committee as Secretary and as a member of a successful capital campaign committee. She currently is a Vice-President with the Epilepsy Foundation, a board member-at-large with the League of Vermont Writers, and a volunteer instructor and member of the Instructor Trainer supervisory committee with the Northern Vermont Chapter of the Red Cross.
Fennell graduated from the University of Vermont with a Bachelor’s of Science in Education and from Green Mountain College with an Associate’s in Art in Recreation Leadership. She has completed coursework in the Master’s in Administration program at St. Michael’s College in not-for-profit management. A native of Rutland, Vermont, Ms. Fennell resides in Jeffersonville, Vermont with her husband, Larry, daughter, Jessica and Emmett, their two-year-old hound, an adoptee of North Country Animal League.
North Country Animal League is a 501(c)(3) organization promoting compassionate and responsible relationships between humans and animals through adoptions, sheltering of homeless animals, spay/neuter programs, education and outreach, and support of cruelty prevention. Information can be found at www.ncal.com.