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.

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.

Graduating in Social Sciences for Globalization, Sofie went on to earn an initial Master’s Degree in ethology and dog education at a spin-off of the University of Padua, followed by a secondary Masters in Project Management at 24ore Business School. Sofie was 13 when she first started volunteering at a rescue shelter, and her love for animals in various forms has remained a passion ever since. She lives in Milan, where she coordinates the street unit of the “Friends on the Streets, Companions for Life” project in a supervisory role, also working long-distance on the outreach Romanian program and tracking part of the data collated. She travels to Romania every month, where she spends part of her time acting as dog educator for residents at the Save the dogs center, while also helping with some of the activities carried out in Cernavoda.

Engaging in theater, Sara graduates in Foreign Languages and Literature from the University of Milan. However, at the age of 27, thanks to an unexpected encounter with her cat Iddu, she rediscovers a deep love for animals, volunteering at the National Animal Protection Agency in Milan for 4 years. Sara met Save the Dogs in 2017 and it was love at first sight: she goes to Romania where she spends 3 years working in the adoption office of the Cernavoda shelter. In the meantime, she graduates as a dog trainer from the SIUA school and joines the Milanese staff of Save the Dogs as an operator of the project “Amici di Strada, Compagni di vita” (Street Friends, Life Companions). Currently, Sara is enthusiastically attending the Advanced Feline Behavior for Cat Professionals course at the English organization International Cat Care, pursuing the deepest secrets of her favorite animals: cats!