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Staff projects

FOOTPRINTS OF JOY – ROMANIA

Adriana Susmă

Adriana Susmă

General Director

Adriana’s professional career started 10 years ago with a Junior Project Manager role as volunteer in an NGO focused on human rights and youth educational programs. After this, she chose to be actively involved in several projects as a volunteer by coordinating and managing various teams from 5 to 100 people in different contexts and countries.

In parallel, Adriana gained more skills by working in the corporate environment for around 5 years, where she specialised in high levels of customer service and project management. At the moment she is following the Intercultural Management Master Program at the University of Bucharest working on a thesis about women in leadership.

One of the happiest moments of her life was 12 years ago when she finally adopted her first cat, as this was one of her childhood dreams. Currently Adriana declares herself the proud mom of 3 cats and 1 dog (and probably more to come), all saved from the streets.

Francesca Gelli

Francesca Gelli

Dog Training Coordinator

Dog trainer and educator with a cognitive zooanthropological approach, graduated from SIUA.
She has focused her interest on bringing out the attitudes and potential of each individual, both in educational and rehabilitative contexts. With this vision, she also became certified as a Scent Detection Technician, in order to enhance this central area of expression for dogs in training paths – an aspect too often overlooked in an anthropocentric context.
As an operator in social dynamics, she has always explored the social behavior of dogs, including dogs within shelters, as an additional aspect of welfare and intraspecific support within the facility.
She considers the human education towards respect and relationships with other species and the planet to be fundamental, and has been collaborating for years with environmental associations and NGOs in training programs for both young people and adults.