Board of Directors

Bryan Kortis serves as Executive Director.  A graduate of Cornell University and    the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, he has practiced both as an attorney and filmmaker (WTC Uncut, Neighborhood Cats, How to Perform a  Mass Trapping, Trap-Neuter-Return: Fixing Feral Cat Overpopulation.)  He learned TNR and began a life with ferals when he saw firsthand the dire situation for street cats in New York City.


Meredith Weiss joined Neighborhood Cats in February of 2000 after learning the basics of TNR and successfully implementing the method in the many colonies in her then lower Manhattan neighborhood (now she practices TNR in Brooklyn!)  Currently, Meredith serves as Director of the New York City Feral Cat Initiative, a city-wide TNR program.  In addition, she has been widely recognized for her compelling photography of feral cats, her work appearing in Cat Fancy,  the New York Times and Newsday, among others.


Emma Cobb co-directed the award-winning instructional video How to Perform a Mass Trapping.   An editor as well as a filmmaker, she received her B.A. from Harvard College and performed graduate work in religion at Columbia University. She looks after a colony of cats in Riverside Park.

Dr. Gordon Stull, DVM, is director of the Burlington County Feral Cat Initiative (BCCI) in New Jersey, veterinarian for the Burlington County Shelter and President of Millennium Wildlife Sciences. The TNR program run by BCCI has been credited by the Burlington County Health Department with contributing to a drop in cat intake rates at the county shelter after ten years of rising rates. Dr. Stull is also in the forefront of research to humanely manage black bear populations through targeted chemical sterilization.