Mary-Ann Fernandes has grown up in the SF Bay Area and started volunteering at PHS in 2011. At PHS, she started off walking dogs and helping with dog enrichment, which led her to assisting public training classes, behavior consultations, and taking dogs on day trips off-site. She became part of the staff at PHS in 2015 and has attended Trish King’s Canine Behavior Academy, completing Level 1 and the advanced courses on behavior consultations and dog aggression. As a staff member of PHS, she works with both dogs and cats with behavioral issues, trains volunteers to work with shelter dogs and cats, counsels members of the public before and after adoption, and provides one-on-one behavior consultations. She’s rescued and rehabilitated nursing kittens in the past and has a soft spot for herding breeds [citation][2].