Allied

Jacquelyn Sawyer and Liz Vacchiano play different roles in the guide dog process. Hear from both of them about how a puppy becomes a guide dog.

Jacquie Sawyer is an expert in influencer marketing strategy and joined The Dogist as The Director of Partnerships in the Spring of 2020. A renowned marketer, she has run campaigns for Google, Sephora, Converse, and many others. A vet tech in college and a dog lover to her core, Jacquie now resides in New Jersey with her husband, Steve, their dog Artie, and their Guiding Eyes for the Blind puppy in training, Biscuit.

Liz Vacchiano has been working professionally with Guiding Eyes for the Blind for two years and just started raising her third puppy, a German Shepherd named Kathleen. While in college at the University of Delaware, she interned at the Penn Vet Working Dog Center and raised two puppies for The Seeing Eye. After college, she was a kennel technician at The Seeing Eye before working as an Assistant Dog Instructor at Canine Companions. In her free time, Liz works at her family's 300-acre farm in New Jersey and is restarting an off-the-track Thoroughbred.

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