Jennifer Raymond is a lifelong advocate for compassionate and responsible care for all animals. When she retired and moved to Humboldt County in 2000, she began a second career dedicated to reducing pet overpopulation and the suffering it causes. In 2003, she founded Humboldt Spay/Neuter Clinic to make affordable sterilization services available to the community, and in 2023 she founded a second clinic, Humboldt Critters Without Litters, to better serve the animals in southern Humboldt County. During her time in Humboldt, she has watched the euthanasia rate drop from over 4,000 dogs and cats a year to under 100. After uncovering the killing of dogs at Miranda’s Rescue this past spring, Jennifer has embarked on a third career: advocating for legislation to make spaying and neutering affordable for all dogs and cats in California, and developing a statewide agency to enforce the laws and ensure the humane treatment for animals in shelters and rescues.

Jenna Moore is a lifelong Humboldt County resident, animal rescuer, advocate, and founder of Moore Love Animal Rescue. Her connection to animals began in childhood through 4-H, horseback riding and caring for animals of all kinds, eventually leading her to work as a veterinary technician and dedicate much of her adult life to animal rescue and rehabilitation. She has been actively involved in rescuing animals since 1999 and has decades of hands-on experience caring for dogs, horses, livestock, and other animals. In addition to her work with animals, Jenna is the founder and owner of Connections Living Services, a Humboldt County-based organization she established in 2007 to support adults with developmental disabilities in living as independently as possible in their communities. Her work in both human services and animal rescue has centered around advocating for those who cannot always advocate for themselves. In the spring of 2026, Jenna and Jennifer Raymond began investigating concerns surrounding Miranda’s Rescue in Fortuna. Their efforts ultimately led to the discovery and recovery of eight deceased dogs and helped bring wider attention to serious concerns involving the treatment, transfer, and fate of animals sent to the rescue. Since then, Jenna has worked extensively with animal owners, shelters, law enforcement, the media and members of the public to gather information, document cases and help families searching for answers about animals they entrusted to the organization. Today, Jenna continues to operate Moore Love Animal Rescue while advocating for greater transparency, accountability, and oversight within animal rescue organizations. She believes that accepting responsibility for an animal means accepting responsibility for its life — and that every animal deserves humane treatment, dignity, and a voice.

Matthias Gafni is an investigative reporter at the San Francisco Chronicle who reports on corruption, sexual abuse, criminal justice, aviation, health care and more. In 2017, he won a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news for his work on the Ghost Ship fire. In 2018, he was named SPJ Reporter of the Year in Northern California. The following year, he was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news for his work covering the Camp Fire. In 2020, he won a Polk Award for military reporting for articles about a COVID-infested aircraft carrier, and in 2020 he won an IRE Award for his examination of the failures of an East Bay hospital. He grew up in the Bay Area and graduated from UC Davis.

Stephen Lam is a staff photographer at the Chronicle, recognized for his versatility and strong visual sensibility across breaking news, sports, features, portraiture, culinary, and long-form storytelling. Before joining the Chronicle in 2021, he spent over a decade as an independent photographer in the Bay Area, with work published by Reuters, Getty Images and Der Spiegel. At the Chronicle, he often leads visual coverage of major national stories, from civil unrest to natural disasters. In 2026, he was part of the team awarded the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting for a series examining how insurance practices harm California wildfire survivors. He also contributed to four Pulitzer finalist teams, including one for feature photography in 2023. Born in Hong Kong and fluent in Cantonese and English, Stephen draws on his cross-cultural perspective to connect with communities and deepen his work.

Emilio Garcia-Ruiz is the Editor in Chief of the San Francisco Chronicle, the leading news source in the Bay Area. The Chronicle focuses its coverage on the issues critical to its readers, including health, homelessness, the post-pandemic future of the city, climate change and its deadly consequences, and the area’s world-class food and wine scene. Under Garcia-Ruiz’s leadership, the newspaper has won nearly all of the top awards in American journalism, including a Pulitzer Prize. Garcia-Ruiz came to the Chronicle in September 2020 after spending the previous 19 years at the Washington Post. His final role at the Post was as Managing Editor for Digital, where he oversaw the development and execution of digital strategy, supervising more than 350 journalists. He edited the 2000 Pulitzer prize-winning investigation by the St. Paul Pioneer Press that uncovered academic fraud in the University of Minnesota men's basketball program. His career includes editing at the Orange County Register and Los Angeles Times.

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