Jenny Coffey, LMSW, is a social worker and animal welfare professional focusing on the intersection of pet ownership and poverty. Her work addresses pet ownership as a barrier to safety and accessing traditional human services, developing model co-sheltering for domestic violence shelters, establishing multi-agency interventions and creating safety-net programs to increase pet retention and strengthen pet ownership. Jenny spent a decade with the Mayor’s Alliance for New York City Animals, where she established and managed safety-net programs combining social work intervention and animal welfare that address 2,500+ situations involving domestic violence, elder abuse, housing problems, and illness. She currently serves as Director of Community Engagement for Animal Haven in New York City and serves as a resource for the New York Police Department, the New York City Fire Department, domestic violence agencies, city agencies, and lawyers when animal welfare and human welfare require coordination and intervention. She has presented on these topics in front of local and national. In 2015 Jenny published, “Helping people and pets in crisis: A toolkit for social workers and human service organizations to incorporate pet welfare into their work,” which was featured in Human-Animal Interactions: A Social Work Guide (published by the National Association of Social Workers Press). Jenny lives in New York City and received her M.S.W. from Columbia University School of Social Work and her B.S. from American University.