Katherine S. O'Donnell is marketing and communications advisor for Zoolingua, the technology company that promises to let us finally talk to the animals, starting with dogs. Katherine spent more than a decade speaking for the animals, working with pet shelters, animal hospitals, and rescue agencies. She has led multimillion-dollar capital campaigns, established major donor programs to garner six-figure charitable contributions, and directed a local animal shelter's crisis communication effort that reached a worldwide audience. She has also published expert content about the human-animal bond in a national publication.

Katherine is director of development and communications for LifeLong Medical Care, a publicly funded community health center serving 60,000-plus low-income patients in Alameda, Contra Costa, and Marin counties in California. In her five-plus years there, she has earned the organization national media coverage, built a robust social media presence, and created and implemented strategic marketing communication plans, as well as written and placed publicity articles that have reached a nationwide audience.

Katherine is a graduate of Northern Arizona University, where she majored in Advertising and minored in Russian. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her three rescue dogs, cats, and rabbit.