{"id":2410,"date":"2014-02-13T20:11:01","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T20:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/?p=2410"},"modified":"2014-02-18T15:56:30","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T15:56:30","slug":"katie-hansberry-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/katie-hansberry-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Show 99: Maine State Director of The Humane Society of the United States Katie Hansberry"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Show:<\/strong>\u00a099
\nAir date:<\/strong> Saturday,\u00a0February 8
\nGuest:<\/strong>\u00a0Katie Hansberry
\nHost:<\/strong> Steve Woods (Stevoe)
\nStudio Contributor<\/strong> Debi Davis
\nExecutive Producer:<\/strong> Shannon Maguire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Katie Hansberry is\u00a0the Maine State Director of The Humane Society of the United States<\/a>, as well as the Campaign Director for\u00a0Mainers for Fair Bear Hunting<\/a>.\u00a0 She grew up spending her summers in Maine at Chop Point Camp in Woolwich. Hansberry attended Bowdoin and earned her bachelor\u2019s degree in Economics and Environmental Studies.\u00a0 She then went on to Boston College Law School for her Juris Doctor degree in 2002.\u00a0\u00a0 Hansberry then attended Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University for her Masters of Science degree in in Animals and Public Policy.<\/p>\n

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Steve Woods (left) host of TideSmart Talk with Stevoe with Maine State Director of The Humane Society of the United States Katie Hansberry (right) in the studio to talk about the Fair Bear Act.<\/p><\/div>\n

While a student at Boston College of Law School, Hansberry was active in the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund. She later worked to promote and expand the Animal Law Practice Group of the Massachusetts Bar Association by serving as the program and meeting coordinator.<\/p>\n

Hansberry joined The Humane Society of the United States in April of 2012, as the Maine State Director.\u00a0 After attending several of The HSUS’s Taking Action for Animals conferences, Hansberry determined to focus her passion for animal welfare into a career.<\/p>\n

Hansberry has also volunteered with the Coastal Humane Society, the Volunteer Lawyers Project, and the Nature Conservancy.\u00a0 Hansberry currently resides in Portland with her adopted cat Goody and her rescued Corgi, Scully.\u00a0 Hansberry is a TST show\u00a0alumni <\/a>and was on the show in July 2013.<\/p>\n

The Humane Society of the United States
\n<\/span>The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) was formed in 1954 and is the nation\u2019s largest animal protection organization. The HSUS has been fighting for the protection of all animals through advocacy, education, and hands-on programs.\u00a0 They rescue and care for tens of thousands of animals each year, but their primary mission is to prevent cruelty before it occurs.\u00a0 They are \u201cthere for all animals, across America and around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Katie Hansberry is the Maine State Director of The Humane Society of the United States, as well as the Campaign Director for Maine’s Fair Bear Act. Hansberry was in the studio to talk with host of TideSmart Talk with Stevoe Steve Woods about Maine’s Fair Bear Act. She told Stevoe about the rigorous signature gathering campaign and how the signature were just turned into the Secretary of State for review. This process will determine if the removal of unfair bear hunting will be on November’s ballot. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}