Lauren Ponder
Accounting Manager, Operations
Lauren, who has been with AWI since 2021, handles AWI’s day-to-day accounting.
She holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and has worked in a variety of challenging roles in accounting, bookkeeping, and benefits administration.
As a child, her parents encouraged empathy for animals in their daily lives, which led her to volunteering at rescue organizations over the past 25 years and to joining AWI and helping to support the organization’s mission to reduce animal suffering caused by people.
She and her family share their home with two cats (brothers) from a local rescue.