Taylor Lefebvre, operations manager

Taylor Lefebvre joined the Best Friends Embed team as a manager of operations - embed project in March of 2023. Before joining Best Friends, her experience in animal welfare included being the Program Manager of the Baltimore Animal Rescue & Care Shelter (BARCS), Director of Operations for the Charlottesville SPCA, and Program Director for PetConnect Rescue. Taylor is dedicated to developing, implementing, and measuring programs designed to better support both animals and humans. She is committed to using a community-based approach of offering whole health resources to help pet owners keep animals out of the shelter system. Taylor also serves on the board of My Pitbull is Family, a nonprofit geared at ending breed discrimination in the housing and insurance sectors. She loves to foster and will often bring home senior dogs with medical needs, bottle babies, or spicy kittens. 

 Taylor is based in Washington DC, where she enjoys hiking, visiting area museums, and baking.