Talia Padilla

Talia Padilla is a Manager of Operations with Best Friends’ National Embed Team. 

She has been involved in animal welfare for 18 years, beginning in a no-kill cat shelter and sanctuary. Talia has extensive experience having worked in municipal and non-profit animal shelters in adoptions, behavior and training, admissions, and field services. Most recently, she was a Supervising Animal Control Officer in San Diego, where the team oversaw the operations of both field services and shelter services. Talia also has experience in disaster response while maintaining the role of the department’s Disaster Coordinator.

Talia grew up in San Diego, CA and comes from a family of animal welfare advocates, with her mother being a shelter manager of a no-kill cat shelter for a decade, and brother also working alongside me in two different shelters. Talia still lives in San Diego with two cats that mean the world to her, Charlotte and Elizabeth Taylor.