Our Board

PAW Team is actively seeking individuals to join our leadership team by serving on our Board of Directors!
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Kate Hooper, DVM, President

Kate Hooper is a veterinarian who loves practicing here in the Pacific NW. She is an active veterinary volunteer with PAW Team and regularly participates in on-site clinics and off-site events. She feels that the mission and services of PAW Team fill a critical and unique need in our community and joined the board in 2023 to help further the goals of the organization. As a Portland native, Kate has been able to see how the city, community, and veterinary medicine have changed and evolved over the years. She believes there is no more important time than now for PAW Team to reach people and their animal companions and she is grateful to work alongside the amazing people that make this work possible. Outside of veterinary medicine, Kate enjoys running, cooking, spending time with her two dogs (Finn and Steady), and traveling with her partner who is also a veterinarian.

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Jordan Nuccio, DVM, CVA

Ten years ago, Jordan attended her first PAW Team drop-in clinic at a warehouse in NW Portland at the urging of a dear friend from vet school.  She was blown away by the incredible demonstrations of the power and significance of the human-animal bond that she witnessed at that first clinic.  She was hooked.  Her involvement at PAW Team over the subsequent years ultimately motivated her to leave private practice to return to school with the plan to explore the potential of supporting and harnessing the power of that bond to help to reduce barriers and provide access to health care for both humans and their pets.  She is currently completing her Master in Public Health degree at the School of Public Health at OHSU/PSU. She plans to continue to work with PAW Team as both a board member and as a volunteer veterinarian to support program development with an emphasis on ‘One Health’, recognizing that the health of people and their pets are interdependent.  She also works to support this human-animal bond as the consulting veterinarian with Kaiser Hospice for the Pet Peace of Mind Program designed to provide care and support to the relationship between hospice patients and their pets.

When not at school or at a clinic she is likely to be found with her husband and two young kids, their three dogs, one cat, five chickens, two fish, two horses and whomever else might have joined the menagerie.

Kristina Hogg, DVM

Kristina moved to Portland from Boston in 2015. In Massachusetts, Kristina had started working in animal shelters while running her own business, where she found the balance of working with the very fortunate in private practice and the less fortunate in non-profits to be very rewarding. She started volunteering with PAW Team while building her own house-call animal acupuncture business, as has been a regular at our clinics throughout the years. She joined our Board of Directors in 2021 to help the organization continue to grow and serve the animals and humans in need in Portland.

In her spare time Kristina can be found hiking and camping with her husband and pack of dogs. They recently converted a Sprinter van to a camper to make it easier to camp with the dogs in all seasons of the year. She also has a small flock of beloved chickens and two African tortoises that live in her backyard and entertain the neighbors.

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Ina Zucker

Growing up in a family that prioritized animal welfare and environmental conservation, Ina began working to protect animals in fifth grade by collecting funds to adopt a whale. Since then, some part of her professional or volunteer work has included advocacy for the future of the planet, its animals and people. She has worked as a junior lobbyist in Washington, DC in support of ending hunting and trapping on national wildlife refuges, a cook in a vegetarian restaurant, and a public interest environmental lawyer.

Working at Oregon Metro, where the voters of the region recently have approved two measures for Metro to tackle affordable housing and homeless services in the Portland area, Ina saw the connections between the PAW Team mission and the work Metro and others are doing to support folks experiencing homelessness. She joined the board in 2022.

When not working, Ina and her husband can be found gardening on a small scale at home, and helping old friends build larger scale, vineyard-adjacent gardens and fruit orchards on beautiful land in Yamhill County.

Anna Wilson

Anna currently works as a supervisor for Home Forward. In her previous roles at Home Forward and other non-profits she has worked closely with the PAW Team. PAW Team brings such a needed service to those that are low income and/or experiencing houselessness. Anna works directly with the folks that access PAW team and has seen first hand the compassion and care they bring. Anna has two spoiled pups, Melvin and Cody. Both are rescues (Humane Society and Pacific Pug Rescue) and love to go on hiking adventures. In her free time, she travels the world with her partner, dogs and friends.

Lillie Reder

Lillie strongly supports animal welfare organizations, especially those dedicated to maintaining and advocating for human-animal companionship like PAW Team. In 2020 she moved from Alaska, where she was a member of the Board of Directors for Bethel Friends of Canines, to Portland to pursue her graduate studies. Thus far, Lillie has enjoyed volunteering at one PAW Wellness Clinic and in the supply room and looks forward to many more volunteer opportunities in fundraising, events, and operations. 

Lillie works for Central City Concern as a Quality Consultant, a PAW partnering non-profit in the Portland Metro area providing housing, healthcare and employment services to folx experiencing homelessness. In her free time she enjoys being outside with her two Alaskan pups or exploring beautiful Portland.

Barb Kessel

Barb derives joy volunteering for PAW Team, and is honored to be part of the team providing vital services to people and pets experiencing poverty and/or houselessness.  She believes our community is strengthened by increases in compassion and kindness.  These qualities continually bounce between staff, volunteers, clients, and pets at PAW Team.   

Barb graduated from the PCC Veterinary Technician program in 2010 and started to live her dream of caring for animals and the people that love them.  She returned to live in Portland a few years ago, but still works remotely for The Grand Lake Veterinary Hospital in the California Bay Area.  She also has a degree in library science and worked as a librarian for many years before entering the veterinary field, including in Washington County.