Vice President, Advancement Operations
Humane World for Animals
Joanne Wilson is the Vice President of Advancement Operations at Humane World for Animals. In this role, she leads the organization's Donor Care, Telemarketing, Direct Response Media, and Face-to-Face operations.
Joanne has been involved in nonprofit fundraising for close to two decades and got her start in non-profit fundraising at EMILY’s List, where she helped grow the monthly giving program and managed the telemarketing efforts. She has also managed mail and phone programs at Defenders of Wildlife. After a turn on the client services side at Chapman, Cubine, Allen and Hussey, and Creative Direct Response where she worked with a wide range of progressive, arts, and animal welfare clients, Joanne transitioned to The Humane Society of the United States in 2015.
She is a Trinidad and Tobago native who migrated many moons ago, and is a graduate of Montgomery College, and American University, where she studied International Relations and U.S. Foreign Policy. Joanne lives in Maryland with two children who regularly outsmart her, and a bunny who believes she owns the house.
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