Meet Our Board
These dedicated folks continue to work diligently to further expand our circle of compassion.
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Courtney has 20+ years of leadership experience in the financial services industry. She has held a wide variety of roles including leading large diverse teams, developing and executing large-scale employee engagement strategies, leading and managing business controls for high-risk processes, and project management responsibilities.
She studied Business Management at Florida Atlantic University. She has been passionate about animals and giving back to her community her entire life. In early 2016, she was unexpectedly inspired by a social media post to transition to a vegan lifestyle and hasn’t looked back since. A few months later she found her way to Full Circle Farm Sanctuary in Warm Springs GA. She has served Full Circle in a wide variety of roles since 2016. Courtney is originally from the greater Boston area and now lives north of Atlanta with her husband and dog Bambi. |
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Daniel Sweeney is a Sign Language Interpreter from Atlanta, GA. He received a BA in Psychology and MA in Speech/Language Pathology. Daniel was first inspired by reading Diet For A New America by John Robbins in the 80's and is excited to be involved in animal advocacy again. He strongly believes that a positive, welcoming ethos is vital to the growth of the animal rights movement.
Daniel and his husband Billy live in Atlanta, GA with their feline companions Patrick, Pelé, and Xuxa. They enjoy hosting Vegan Atlanta Book Club meetups and attending Atlanta United soccer games. They spend most of their weekends at Full Circle helping out with animal care, getting to know visitors, and facilitating tours and events. |
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Jackie has always been driven by a passion to serve others, particularly those most in need. That passion led her to a fulfilling 35-year career in public education where she taught preschool through college level students and then went on to serve in a variety of administrative capacities as a curriculum director, principal, assistant superintendent, chief academic officer, and as a consultant for a variety of organizations.
Jackie received M.Ed.’s in Special Education and Educational Leadership from the University of West Georgia, a MS in Exercise Science from Georgia State University, and Plant-Based Nutrition Certification from eCornell University. She regularly coaches individuals on the benefits of adopting a plant-based dietary lifestyle and is a volunteer with her local Humane Society and several animal rights organizations. She’s been active in the health and fitness industry as an exercise instructor, aerobic director, and Bicycle Ride Across Georgia director. She practices civic engagement though her work with the League of Women Voters and is actively involved in the local arts community where she is a member of the local Artist Guild. In her spare time, she paints and does clay work and experiments with a variety of other artistic mediums. She lives in Carrollton, GA with her five rescued cat companions. Kindness, compassion, and courage are her guiding principles. She believes it is our responsibility as human beings to be the voice for those who cannot defend themselves. |
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Jessica Kattula is a patent attorney for Newell Brands, Inc. in Atlanta, Georgia. She received her undergraduate degree in Industrial & Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan, and her law degree from Georgia State University. Jessica is originally from Michigan but has lived in Atlanta for 17+ years, where she spends most of her free time with her two favorite girls -- daughter Madeline and dog Lucy. She is passionate about the Full Circle mission and spreading the light, love and compassion exhibited by this special organization.
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Born and raised in Los Angeles, Jennifer moved to Atlanta in 2013. She and her husband Oscar care for a band of rescued companions, comprised of four dogs and two cats. You’ll often find her in the kitchen making everything from raw meals to decadent desserts. Jennifer enjoys a creative challenge and will take on anything from wood working to sewing and crafting.
Jennifer attended Auburn University and completed three years of the Nutrition & Dietetics program. In her final year, she returned to her lifelong passion and earned a BA in English. Jennifer’s concern for animal rights began in childhood. She rescued any animal she could and attended protests with her older sister. At 14, after watching Babe, her eyes began opening to the horrors of animal agriculture. She immediately went vegetarian. Years later, profoundly impacted by the work of her animal advocate sister and brother in-law; Jennifer went vegan. Wanting to get further involved, she discovered Full Circle Farm Sanctuary in 2017. With a passion for Full Circle’s mission, Jennifer has been volunteering ever since. |
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Nichole has been a dietitian nutritionist for 27 years with a focus in plant-based eating for the past 12 years. She has specialized in sports nutrition, women’s health, and prevention of lifestyle diseases like heart disease and diabetes. She also owned a chocolate company, nicobella organics, for 10 years where she did everything from making, packaging, and shipping the chocolate to marketing the brand and hosting chocolate events. Nichole is also a certified yoga instructor.
Her current focus is plant-based eating, movement, and meditation for the body and the mind to help individuals alleviate anxiety and create a sense of peace and compassion for themselves, animals, and the planet. Nichole has always loved working with animals and started her animal activism when she was just 10 years old, joining Greenpeace to help advocate for harp seals. Despite her love for animals, she didn’t connect the food that was on her plate with its origins until 2009 when she went vegetarian. In 2013 she watched a dairy factory farm video at a Mercy for Animals event, went vegan that night, and never looked back. When she moved to Atlanta in 2013, she started a transport program with a local Atlanta animal shelter, transporting homeless pets from the southeast to the northeast, where there were more adoptable homes. She worked with Best Friends Animal Society as an Events Marketing Specialist for a year before moving into Public Relations and Social Media Management for four years. She also loves working directly with animals and has been on the ground helping displaced animals after Hurricane Harvey in Texas and Hurricane Irma in Florida. She’s been a volunteer with Full Circle Farm Sanctuary for the past five years where she’s done a variety of jobs from helping to build fencing for pigs to scooping goat poop to hosting yoga and chocolate tasting events. She's passionate about Full Circle Farm Sanctuary's mission and all that they're doing from giving farm animals a safe place to call home to spreading awareness through education, outreach, and tours. Originally from New Jersey, Nichole currently lives in Atlanta with her husband and rescue pup, Mariposa. |
