Animal Law Guild Conference 2016
Planning Committee
Planning Committee
CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS
Danielle Lowy, Esq.,
Co-Chair, Animal Law Guild Conference 2016
Danielle Lowy, Esq., formerly the head of animal cruelty prosecutions for the Riverside County District Attorney, is now a devoted animal activist, focusing most of her pro bono efforts to end the dog-meat trade in Asia through collaboration with the Vanderpump Dog Foundation, Duo Duo Project and St. Martin's Animal Rescue.
Co-Chair, Animal Law Guild Conference 2016
Danielle Lowy, Esq., formerly the head of animal cruelty prosecutions for the Riverside County District Attorney, is now a devoted animal activist, focusing most of her pro bono efforts to end the dog-meat trade in Asia through collaboration with the Vanderpump Dog Foundation, Duo Duo Project and St. Martin's Animal Rescue.
Celia Cho, Esq., Law Office of Celia Cho
Co-Chair, Animal Law Guild Conference 2016
Celia Cho practices entertainment law involving intellectual property, such as copyright and all things related to music. She was inspired to become an attorney to help others protect their rights in their creative expressions. As an animal lover, Celia is focused on ending the dog meat trade in South Korea and changing laws that elude animal protection.
Co-Chair, Animal Law Guild Conference 2016
Celia Cho practices entertainment law involving intellectual property, such as copyright and all things related to music. She was inspired to become an attorney to help others protect their rights in their creative expressions. As an animal lover, Celia is focused on ending the dog meat trade in South Korea and changing laws that elude animal protection.
CONFERENCE COORDINATOR
Christy Schilling
Event Coordinator, Animal Law Guild Conference 2016
Barely out of kindergarten, Christy couldn’t wait to donate her allowance to the Jerry Lewis telethon. The giving has never stopped. With a BA in Sociology she worked and volunteered in social welfare including helping pregnant and parenting teens and assisting victims of domestic violence. Through this, her eyes were also opened to the plight of animals in those settings. Christy narrowed her volunteering focus to animals – the voiceless. Christy has served on the Board of Directors for several non-profit organizations devoted to saving the lives of animals. She is a regular volunteer for mobile adoptions, coordinating fosters and transports (a program to relocate high risk animals from local shelters out of state), was instrumental in starting a “tabling” program (where volunteers try to find solutions for owners prior to them relinquishing their pets to shelters) and is dedicated to NKLA (“No Kill Los Angeles”), an initiative to make Los Angeles a No-Kill City by increasing spay and neuter services, educating the public, and creating unity within the animal welfare community to reduce the euthanasia rates in our shelters. After 15+ years in animal welfare volunteerism, co-founding The Animal Protectorates (TAPS) was a natural progression. She identified that TAPS could work cohesively to highlight cruelty and abuse, and to change inadequate or inappropriate laws through its mission of Teaching, Advocating, Protecting and Supporting. Christy was awarded 2014 Woman of the Year by Congressman Adam Schiff for her animal welfare work and 2016 the Humane Hero Activist Award from The Animal PAC. To Christy, Gandhi’s words enlighten, “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated”.
Event Coordinator, Animal Law Guild Conference 2016
Barely out of kindergarten, Christy couldn’t wait to donate her allowance to the Jerry Lewis telethon. The giving has never stopped. With a BA in Sociology she worked and volunteered in social welfare including helping pregnant and parenting teens and assisting victims of domestic violence. Through this, her eyes were also opened to the plight of animals in those settings. Christy narrowed her volunteering focus to animals – the voiceless. Christy has served on the Board of Directors for several non-profit organizations devoted to saving the lives of animals. She is a regular volunteer for mobile adoptions, coordinating fosters and transports (a program to relocate high risk animals from local shelters out of state), was instrumental in starting a “tabling” program (where volunteers try to find solutions for owners prior to them relinquishing their pets to shelters) and is dedicated to NKLA (“No Kill Los Angeles”), an initiative to make Los Angeles a No-Kill City by increasing spay and neuter services, educating the public, and creating unity within the animal welfare community to reduce the euthanasia rates in our shelters. After 15+ years in animal welfare volunteerism, co-founding The Animal Protectorates (TAPS) was a natural progression. She identified that TAPS could work cohesively to highlight cruelty and abuse, and to change inadequate or inappropriate laws through its mission of Teaching, Advocating, Protecting and Supporting. Christy was awarded 2014 Woman of the Year by Congressman Adam Schiff for her animal welfare work and 2016 the Humane Hero Activist Award from The Animal PAC. To Christy, Gandhi’s words enlighten, “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated”.