WHO WE ARE
Our volunteers are the ones who keep us running. They manage day-to-day activities, ranging from animal care & fostering, social media, event help, and so much more. Because of our volunteers, we are able to maintain a healthy balance for the animals within our care, and interact with our valued supporters in a timely manner.
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2025 BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Our board of directors & executive officers maintain the inner workings of Archie's Angels. They ensure that paperwork is up-to-date with the state, serve as a resource for volunteers, schedule veterinary appointments for fosters, and operate fundraisers.
RAIJA HANSEN
PRESIDENT & FOUNDER
At a young age, Raija found a fascination with herpetological wildlife, discovering toads & garter snakes in her own backyard. This passion continued as she grew, discovered other reptiles & amphibians, and adopted her first reptile - a leopard gecko named Oz who still resides with her today. Her educational outreach within the herpetological community began in 2014. Since then, Raija has spoken about reptile & amphibian care at hundreds of different venues, including but not limited to schools, colleges, humane societies, veterinary hospitals, expos, assisted living facilities, and so much more. She continues her education journey with Archie's Angels today, having expanded to teaching about anatomy & physiology and looking at herpetology through a veterinary lens with the most up-to-date information available.
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She has a passion for monitor lizards and their unique intelligence, but her heart earned a special spot for frilled dragons after taking in Gideon, a special-needs dragon who was in search of a loving home. She manages most specialized foster cases, able to provide around-the-clock care for animals that need direct supervision and medical treatments.
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Raija is a Certified Master Herpetologist through The Amphibian Foundation. She works as a Veterinary Assistant, experienced in both general practice & exotic urgent care. She enjoys making larger-than-life costumes for cosplay, writing, Dungeons & Dragons, and playing video games.
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As president, Raija serves as the primary speaker for all events, generates content for outreach, maintains the business interface, upkeeps the website, and oversees the board of directors, officers, fosters & volunteers and all activities of the organization.
ROCHELLE SCHUCH
VICE PRESIDENT
Rochelle began her interest in reptiles and amphibians over 20 years ago when she was a young girl, catching frogs with her dad for catch-and-release. In childhood, she developed a strong desire to rescue, rehabilitate, and relocate native and non-native species of reptiles, particularly snakes. She was often called on by neighbors to help relocate species that had worked their way into garages and homes. During her high school and college years, she worked on rehabbing & rehoming captive animals and educating about their proper husbandry.
Today, her primary focus has become helping and educating on all reptiles & amphibians in the pet trade and ensuring their owners are set up for success with the help of Archie’s Angels. Her desire for knowledge has led her not only to pursue the best care possible, but to ensure that each animal's habitat can provide enrichment & the most to keep them happy & healthy. Every year, she studies the newest findings on species to ensure she is providing the best life & guidance on their care. She strives to further advance her skills and knowledge of a variety of species, working with everything from frogs and lizards, to colubrids, pythons, and boas. She is currently working on expanding her knowledge of chelonians & boas alongside their specialized care.
Outside of working with reptiles, amphibians & other animals, she can be found working on cosplay, hiking & exploring the outdoors, and reading anything from science textbooks to fantasy novels and her own writing projects.​​
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Rochelle's duties include advising the board, completing special tasks as requested, assist in data management, and asset management.
KRISTEN BENO
SECRETARY
Kristen grew up in the woods of the Pacific Northwest, surrounded by mossy landscapes, rogue strawberry plants and garter snakes. The garter snakes were always their favorite part, and even as a child, they loved educating everyone else around them about how important snakes were. The only bad part was that snakes were not allowed inside the house.
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About ten years later, they wondered if that rule still applied: could snakes be allowed inside the house? That was how they ended up with Paula, their first snake and their constant companion through college, their Master's program and beyond. Together, they seek to continue educating others about snakes and to help paint them in a more positive light.
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Outside of Archie's, Kristen enjoys writing science fiction, tinkering with old video game systems, making digital art and collecting weird bugs. They're currently working as staff at the Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary.
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Kristen's responsibilities as secretary are to maintain monthly meeting minutes, manage records, communicate important announcements to volunteers, and to serve as a general educational resource.
KATRINA SCHLAFER
TREASURER
Katrina has always had a passion for often “misunderstood” animals. She had a small anole as a child, but what she really wanted was a bigger reptile, like a bearded dragon. Like a lot of kids, Katrina was told to wait until she was adult.
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Fast forward 18 years later, and Katrina woke up one day realizing, “I’m 24 and have my own place. I can get any reptile I want to!” This epiphany quickly led her to Archie’s, where she found Hades the Ball Python.
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Now, Katrina and Hades visit schools to present about ball pythons in the wild, their natural habitat, and their anatomy. Their main goal is helping children conquer their fear of snakes in an educational way.
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Outside of Archie’s, Katrina works as a legal assistant, raises chickens, and enjoys mystery podcasts, snowshoeing, digital art, and losing at Super Smash Bros. ​
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As treasurer, Katrina is the bookkeeper, grant applicant, and fundraiser lead. She manages the organization's financial income & expenses, maintains fiscal records, fulfills online orders, and ensures full transparency to the public for finances & where money is going.
LEANNA KILEY
ADOPTION COORDINATOR
Bio coming soon!​
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As adoption coordinator, Leanna is the primary contact for inquiring adopters & fosters alike, determines where an animal would best be placed within our foster network, and oversees all veterinary records from appointments.
DAWN REZNICHEK
COMMUNICATION COORDINATOR
Dawn's interest in reptiles started in middle school where her teacher had a classroom pet iguana that she volunteered to help care for. She loved finding the wild snakes and toads throughout her wooded yard growing up, and absolutely fell in love with the garter snake her high school biology teacher had in the classroom.
She did not have the opportunity to have any reptiles as a pet until her adult years and now has a small collection of snakes, geckos, and invertebrates. If you asked her which of her exotic critters is her favorite, she would say it's a tie between her Old Man Herbert (her hognose snake) for his sassy attitude and her Fox Snake, Anu, because he has to be in her business all the time.
Beyond Archie's, Dawn is a licensed travel insurance representative and does a lot of work with her sewing machine as a cosplayer, quilter, and seamstress. She can often be found playing video games on her PlayStation, working in her garden, or reading a book from her endless stack of to-be-reads.​
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Dawn plays a vital part in ensuring prompt communication within Archie's Angels. She is the primary point of contact when it comes to email, responding to basic email inquiries and directing communications to the appropriate director or officer.​
COREY NELSON
SOCIAL MEDIA COORDINATOR
Bio coming soon!​
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As social media coordinator, Corey manages the Archie's Angels social media platforms. They manage our photography too, ensuring everyone (including the animals) look their best!
TAMMY REMINGTON
INVENTORY COORDINATOR
Bio coming soon!​
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Tammy oversees the Archie's Angels inventory stock, manages donated items, relays what supplies need to be ordered, and communicates with fosters to reliably transfer supplies.
