APNM Board of Directors

 

Anne Coller, President
P.O. Box 11395, Albuquerque, N.M. 87192

Anne, her husband and canines moved to Santa Fe from Texas in 2005. While living in Texas, Anne was a volunteer for the Midland SPCA.  She helped run the thrift store that supported the shelter. Anne also volunteered at the shelter, filling in where needed. She served on the board of the Texas Humane Legislation Network, a group similar to Animal Protection Voters. She lobbied in Austin for four legislative sessions.  Anne is totally committed to getting more humane laws enacted in New Mexico, and making sure they are enforced.

Charles Fox, Secretary
P.O. Box 11395, Albuquerque, N.M. 87192

Charles Fox moved to Santa Fe from the San Francisco bay area in 2005 and works as a freelance web developer. In 2011 Charles began working with the Trap Free New Mexico coalition that includes APNM, WildEarth Guardians and the Sierra Club to enact permanent legislation banning traps from New Mexico's landscape. With a background in psychology, Charles is interested in how society treats animals as a measure of civilization. Pearl, a deaf Australian Shepherd, makes sure he walks a lot.

Robanne Harrison, Director
P.O.Box 11395, Albuquerque, N.M. 87192

Robanne Harrison has been an active member of Animal Protection of New Mexico since 1987 and has served as its president since 1997. Her primary focus is education and international animal rights efforts. She first became convinced of the tremendous need for animal rights on a personal level in 1975 while working on a college art project at a dairy farm in Athens, Georgia. When she moved to New Mexico, she became an activist. Currently, she teaches Social Studies and Language Arts at Manzano High School in Albuquerque. She holds an MA in Anthropology with an emphasis on political and legal anthropology.

Tom Alexander, Director
P.O. Box 11395, Albuquerque, N.M. 87192

Tom retired to Santa Fe in 2000. Since then, he has done volunteer work for many nonprofit organizations, including Kitchen Angels, Mentoring New Mexico, Heart & Soul Animal Sanctuary, Literacy Volunteers of Santa Fe, Española Animal Shelter, Kindred Spirits Animal Sanctuary and the Wildlife Center in Española. For the last eight years, he has worked on New Mexico’s Week For The Animals task force, an official event by proclamation of the Governor of New Mexico. Tom currently volunteers as the Humane Education Coordinator for the Santa Fe Animal Shelter & Humane Society. He also serves as the advisor to the Shelter Youth Board, a partnership between the Shelter and Jane Goodall Institute’s Roots & Shoots youth program.  He currently serves on the Board of Directors for PAWS (People for Animal Welfare Society) and the Lakota Animal Care Project, an effort to address animal neglect and abuse on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.

 

Kathleen Sullivan, Director
P.O. Box 11395, Albuquerque, N.M. 87192

Kathleen has been an animal lover her entire life and aspired to become a horse as a young child! Eventually it became obvious that this was not going to happen, so she acquired and cared for horses whenever possible. When a career requiring much travel interrupted her horse-owning years, she volunteered at a Horse Rescue & Rehab facility in Baltimore, MD. Upon moving to Santa Fe in 2000, her first interest was in finding a horse rescue where she could volunteer. Jan Bandler was just beginning The Horse Shelter, still looking for funding. She assisted in that effort and remembers The Horse Shelter's first horse. Kathleen is retired and lives with her partner, Jack, and two rescued dogs in Tesuque. And a horse, of course.


Anne Desiderio, Director
P.O. Box 11395, Albuquerque, N.M. 87192

Anne Desiderio was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She moved to New Mexico more than 40 years ago with her husband Robert. Over the past 35 years she has followed her passions of working with children and animals. She fostered children through NM Children, Youth & Families for 20 years. In 1995, she founded NM Parent & Child Resources, Inc. a non-profit agency that served children and families in the treatment foster care program and in Michael’s Place, a therapeutic child care center. Anne retired as Executive Director in December 2011. Anne fosters animals through Animal Humane-New Mexico, City of Albuquerque and Kauai Humane Association.  She and her husband have eight children and seven grandchildren, and three dogs and three cats.

Advisory Board

Robert Shelton, Director
P.O. Box 11395, Albuquerque, N.M. 87192

Robert and his furry friends moved to Santa Fe in March 2009 from Houston, Texas.  He is an investment advisor by profession, but his passion outside of work is loving and caring for animals.  Robert used to own a mobile pet grooming business in Houston, where he donated grooming services to the Houston SPCA, rescue groups and animal shelters so animals would have a better chance of finding a new home.  Robert’s motto is that pets are not spoiled, just deserving, and he wants to see that all animals in New Mexico get the legal protection, care and support they so very much deserve.