Wendy Frink

Marketing Communications Specialist

As a Marketing Communications Specialist, Wendy is a writer and storyteller. Creating content to raise awareness about Maddie's Fund and the animal well-being industry, grant and resource opportunities, promotional concepts and marketing plans that align with Maddie's Fund's strategic goals, and all the ways animal shelters are helping to keep pets and people together across the country.

Before joining Maddie's Fund, Wendy was Fortune magazine's audience engagement editor, helping to promote the publication's articles and drive reader interest to its website. She also assisted with promoting Fortune conferences and the publication's signature lists.

But Wendy's passion has always been pets. That began with her childhood cats and neighborhood dogs in Southern California, inspiring her to become a shelter volunteer. Over the past several years, she has used her creative skills to make people aware of homeless pets and encourage them to visit their local shelters to adopt. Beginning in 2012, she made Hamilton Pug, her one-time shelter dog, into a social media star, who uses his platform to advocate for pet adoption. Wendy learned about Maddie's Fund when Hamilton became a spokesdog for The Shelter Pet Project, putting his cute face on billboards across the country.

She lives in New York City with her husband, daughter, their rescue pug Omar, beautiful cat Stella and a flow of foster cats and kittens. She also enjoys traveling, attending pug meet-ups and running, having twice completed the New York City Marathon.