Our Board
CDHR’s Board of Directors volunteer their skills, time, and expertise to make CDHR a strong and vital nonprofit organization. Our Board of Directors is entrusted with three key responsibilities for CDHR: advocacy, fundraising, and strategic governance. Board members provide essential guidance and support to the organization, putting their professional expertise to work to ensure that CDHR is run like a business, with transparency and sustainability for the future.
Stacey Golub, DVM
Founder & Executive Director
Stacey Golub, DVM, “Doc,” as she is affectionately called around the rescue, is an equine veterinarian and owns her own practice, Connecticut Valley Equine Veterinary Services. Dr. Golub graduated from Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine in 1998 and started started Connecticut Valley Equine in 2005. Connecticut Valley Equine is an ambulatory (mobile) equine veterinary practice based in Central Connecticut. When she has ‘free time,” you can find Dr. Golub exhibiting her Shire horses in hand or driving.
Dr. Golub founded Connecticut Draft Horse Rescue (CDHR) in 2011. Since its inception, CDHR has been able to give over 100 draft horses a second chance at life, saving them through intercepts, auctions, and kill pens, as well as providing a home for horses whose owners can no longer provide care for them.
Sarah Grote
Vice President
Sarah utilizes her non-profit and corporate experience to promote CDHR through public relations, fundraising, and events.
Patricia Gugliotti
Treasurer
Pat is a certified financial planner of tax & investment strategies and has been an incredible asset to CDHR’s board with her vast knowledge of all areas of our rescue.
