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Volunteer Spotlight

May 2025

Rachna

Meet Rachna, our Volunteer of the Month for May! Rachna started volunteering with Greenhill in January 2024 and has already contributed more than 160 hours of her time to helping the animals. She is a dedicated kennel volunteer who holds recurring weekly shifts as both a kennel cleaner who prepares the kennels for the day in the early mornings and a member of our dog photo team who showcases our adoptable dogs on our website. She says about her volunteer positions: “It is surprisingly satisfying to clean kennels! It can be a great workout, you get your steps in for the day, and it feels inherently rewarding to make a nice clean cozy space for the dogs in their kennel. Dog photography is also a lot of fun. You get to meet, play, and practice training with a bunch of adoptable dogs in the pursuit of capturing some cute photos. Interacting with all the different personalities and coaxing shy dogs into their more comfortable, silly selves is really gratifying!”
 
Rachna’s family moved around frequently when she was young, so rather than a single hometown, she has several places she identifies as where she grew up: Canada, the East Coast, and Michigan! She later spent time in San Francisco, where she adopted her 12-year-old dog Oko from Family Dog Rescue in 2014. A couple years after she adopted Oko, she ended up working as an Animal Care Associate at the San Francisco SPCA, which shared a building with Family Dog Rescue. When she realized the SPCA’s surgery clinic was the same clinic where Oko had her spay/neuter surgery prior to adoption, she says, “It felt like a full circle moment to be working in the same place that had taken care of Oko’s medical needs after she was rescued from living on the streets with her puppy.”
 
In 2023, Rachna moved to Eugene to be closer to her parents and work on writing and defending her master’s thesis. She wrapped up her degree last semester and is now beginning to apply to jobs. In her spare time, she enjoys rock climbing, taking Oko on hikes, crochet, crosswords, and trivia.
 
Before Rachna began volunteering at Greenhill, she already had lots of experience supporting shelter animals through past volunteer work at Berkeley Humane Society and San Francisco SPCA. Her volunteer work at Greenhill has further reinforced for her how connected we are as a community “perhaps without even realizing it.” She adds, “We rely on community members, or in this case staff and fellow volunteers, for essential work and contributions that we may not even be aware of to take care of the animals at Greenhill Humane and collectively support the broader community of Eugene and Springfield.”