Board of Directors

Gerry Boss has a life-long love for animals, and has participated in a variety of animal rescue groups, having fostered well over 100 cats and dogs in his home. He has been a member of the SNAP Board of Directors for over 20 years, and has served as President of the Board for the last five years. He is a faculty member at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), serving as a Professor of Medicine. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed papers, with his main interest being nutrient regulation of purine synthesis and cell growth. Throughout his career, he has remained clinically active, serving as a primary care physician for adult patients. He received a B.S. in Genetics from the University of California, Berkeley, an M.D. degree from the University of California, Irvine, and then completed an Internal Medicine Residency at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He subsequently did post-doctoral training at Massachusetts General Hospital and UCSD. Gerry has a long history of community outreach, volunteering in free clinics in both San Diego and Mexico, and building houses in Tijuana.

Kristina Hancock has been a member of the SNAP Board of Directors since 2004; serving as Secretary until 2017. Kristina focuses her law practice on representation of tax-exempt organizations and charitable giving. She has extensive experience counseling public charities, large and small family and corporate foundations, social welfare organizations, and trade associations. She has served as corporate counsel to both large and small non-profits for more than 30 years. She taught Animal Law as an adjunct professor at California Western School of law, for 15 years, and co-founded the American Bar Association’s first Animal Law Committee. Before entering the legal profession, Kristina practiced as a critical care nurse for 15 years. She is currently doing graduate work in Climate Science at Scripps Institute of Oceanography.