Allie Phillips, JD

Allie Phillips

Founder/CEO, Sheltering Animals and Families Together

Allie Phillips is an author, attorney, advocate and educator for vulnerable victims. She is the founder & CEO of the Sheltering Animals & Families Together (SAF-T)® Program, the first and only global initiative helping domestic violence shelters to create on-site pet housing. As a result of her groundbreaking work to create safe housing for families with pets, she was the recipient of the 2018 Trailblazer Award from the Urban Resource Institute and 2015 Top Defender of Animals award recipient from the Animal Legal Defense Fund. She is a former prosecuting attorney who has worked for the National District Attorneys Association as the Founder/Director of the National Center for Prosecution of Animal Abuse and Deputy Director of the National Center for Prosecution of Child Abuse. She was the Vice President of Public Policy and Vice President of Human-Animal Strategic Initiatives for American Humane Association. With over 25 years of experience in helping animal and human survivors of abuse, she has been educating criminal justice professionals since 1997. She is an award winning book author and is on the steering committee of the National Link Coalition, chair of the State Bar of Michigan’s Animal Law Section, member of the Coalition on Violence Against Animals and National Alliance of Victims’ Rights Attorneys.

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