Treasurer

Joined ARC Board – August 2000

Betty is the rock solid financial foundation of ARC’s Board of Trustees. She has expertise in fundraising, grant writing and serves as Chair of our Starlight Auction, a signature ARC event that raises the bulk of the shelter’s funds for the year.

She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Alvin College in Houston Texas with a degree in Business. She joined the ARC Board in 2000 and has held the position of Board Treasurer since then. Her various accounting positions were based in New York, Texas and with GE Client Business Services in Ft Myers. This corporate experience helped her formulate the financial path of ARC, promote a robust base of supporters and develop signature events such as the Starlight Auction.

Under ARC, Betty’s passion for the world of rescue blossomed and she retired from the corporate world. She was instrumental in helping ARC achieve its status as the largest no-kill shelter in Southwest Florida.

Betty is also a champion of pets who are “born different” and have special needs. With the help of ARC’s mascot Lily, Betty enjoys speaking in front of organizations and using social media to promote the adoption of special needs pets. She finds great joy in seeing the tremendous increase in adoptions of pets who need an extra “paw up” through her efforts in raising community awareness.

Sharing her home with husband Rich, Betty fosters newborns or kittens recovering from life-saving surgeries.