Our Leadership
Marlena Smith,
Chief Executive Officer
With over a decade of experience rescuing homeless cats & kittens and helping them find their forever homes, Marlena is the driving force behind BTV. In addition to personally providing first-class care for each animal, Marlena has organically developed an active community of over 50,000 to promote animal health. Her efforts have been featured in major media news outlets. By day she is a registered respiratory therapist and a registered nurse.
Marlena resides in Macon, GA with her fur babies. She is also a nutrition-nerd and advocate for veganism.
Michele Partap,
Chief Financial Officer
Michele serves as CFO for BTV and handles all things business. She is responsible for financial management, compliance, and accounting — the nuts-and-bolts of our operation! She holds a B.S. in Accounting and a Masters of Business Administration, both from The University of Tennessee Chattanooga.
Michele lives in the Acworth, GA area with her husband, an environmental geologist, and their cats. She enjoys interior decorating and a wide variety of crafts.
Dr. Alison Bradbury,
Chief Medical Officer
Dr. Alison Bradbury started with The Cat Doctor in 2006, first as a Veterinary Assistant, then as a Registered Veterinary Technician. She graduated Cum Laude from UGA’s College of Veterinary Medicine, where she received the American Association of Feline Practitioners Award and the Blanche D. Hayes Award for Exceptional Proficiency in Feline Medicine and Surgery. Most recently, UGA endowed the Alison Bradbury Chair in Feline Health in her honor.
Alison has worked with the Be Their Voice team since 2017. She ensures every foster has access to individualized medical care, gracefully handling everything from routine vaccinations to chronic illnesses to life-or-death emergencies.
Aimee Eldridge,
Chief Operating Officer
Aimee serves as COO for BTV and handles a myriad of things for the Rescue. By day, she works in finance, while at home she is a foster mom as well as a cat mom to three resident cats. Fostering for Aimee came about as a result of COVID-19: when she was sent to work from home full time, it opened up the possibility of fostering, something she had only ever dreamed about. Since then, the passion for fostering has grown to a passion for all aspects of rescue.
Aimee lives in the Atlanta suburbs and enjoys cooking, reading, and watching movies and crime documentaries with her husband.
Allison Halterman,
Chief Digital Officer
Allison serves as the CDO and webmaster for BTV and is a foster mom as well. She is an animal lover and is passionate about rescue.
Allison has a Master's of Education with a focus on adult learning and instructional design. She is the Director of Digital Learning for Boys & Girls Clubs of America.
Allison resides in Buffalo, NY, but remains connected to Be Their Voice. She is an environmentalist, sustainability proponent, outdoor enthusiast, voracious reader, and an avid DIYer.
Ginny Corradino,
Chief Community Outreach Officer and TNR Coordinator
Ginny is a huge advocate for Trap, Neuter, Return, or TNR, especially since it ties in integrally to fostering. She loves fostering mom cats and their babies and is devoted to making fostering a full-circle process to end the continuous birthing cycle for unspayed female cats and to curb undesirable behavior of tomcats. She loves teaching trapping to the community and wants TNR to feel like an approachable process.
When Ginny isn’t busy with her foster kitties or out trapping, she’s mom to two little boys, and cat and dog mom to a crew of five cats and two dogs. She also sings professionally, teaches piano lessons, and works part-time teaching High School. She loves traveling and spending time with her family and friends.