Natalie Young joined the KC Pet Project team in July 2020 and in September 2020, Natalie joined the organization’s leadership as its Pet Support Manager. Natalie oversees the Pet Support Center team including providing resources to keep pets in their homes, helping owners with re-homing their animals, caring for pets that are lost, managing the Pet Support Hotline, and reuniting pets with their family. Natalie is fully embracing KCPP’s motto “Solutions not Excuses” and finding ways to better support the community through her new role.
Natalie’s passion in life is to help people and animals and she is thankful she gets to do that every day in her role as Pet Support Manager. Her role allows her to focus on keeping families together through empathy, compassion and giving community members tools and information to help them meet the needs of their pet families.
Natalie’s professional career includes over 15 years of experience in customer service and over ten years of leadership experience. For four years, Natalie owned and operated Sebella’s Fire, a family-owned woodfired pizza business she and her parents started from the ground up. Natalie graduated from Johnson County Community College on the Dean’s list in 2008 with an Associates of Applied Science Food and Beverage Management Degree.
Natalie was born and raised in Kansas City, MO, and loves spending her free time with friends and family. Natalie has two cats, Flynn and Delilah, a dog named Taz, and a Bearded Dragon named Khaleesi. Natalie loves to cook and try new food, she also loves anything outdoors, adventures, bike rides, art and going to sports games and concerts. Natalie’s favorite quote is “You can’t make everyone happy. You are not pizza.”
