Charlotte grew up in California. She has a B.A. in English from UCLA with minor studies in Biochemistry. She worked for a Beverly Hills dermatologist, and then the American Heart Association, before finding a career as a research manager for a national news organization. Charlotte spent years helping her grandparents with the family farm, where they raised horses, a milk cow named Pearl, hundreds of chickens, and a variety of dogs and cats.
She and her husband have three children. When she’s not at work she loves attending yard sales, looking for antiques.
Basha joined MAEVC as a client care specialist but has evolved into a jack of all trades, also assisting the doctors and managing the hospital inventory.
Outside of her early start working at a small TV station, most of her professional career has been caring for clients and their animals, whether it be managing dog and cat boarding services or providing nutritional information to exotic animal owners at large retailers. She has a passion for meeting people, hearing their stories, and finding the best ways to help them.
She spends her down time hiking with her fiancé and tending to her growing plant collection. Basha owns two guinea pigs (Ginzo and Grendel), and a fiesty rabbit (named Nasty!)
Michael was born and raised in Maryland and grew up with a love of animals. Starting with the companionship of his family dog, Sandy, Michael forged a strong connection with a variety of animals by raising dogs and cats, designing aquascapes for his fish and shrimp, and caring for guinea pigs, hedgehogs, and a variety of reptiles and poultry. Though his plans to attend Veterinary School in California were thwarted due to the global pandemic, his work with animals was not. Besides his passion for wildlife and conservation, Michael is also a musician and song writer who thoroughly enjoys meeting people and animals alike, and desires to see the sick and weary in both realms restored.
Nala was born and raised in the Mojave Desert. One of her earliest memories is her grandfather bringing her a pet tortoise named Emmy. Since then, she has had a connection with reptiles and a passion for excellent care of all pets.
After a few years in her adult life working in customer service and studying animal science, she entered the veterinary field. Nala had always wanted to work with exotic animals and after four years of working with dogs and cats, the opportunity arose at Maryland Avian and Exotics Veterinary Care.
At home she takes care of her two cats, Yuki and Claire, her ball python, Todra and a varietal school of fish.
Outside of work Nala spends most of her time visiting family, exploring nature, watching movies and being an artist. Nala is most happy when she is filling the world with paintings and sculptures and improving the planet by educating pet owners and helping the animals that rely on proper care.
Deneise graduated from Mount St. Mary's University with a B.S. in Health Sciences and minor in Psychology.
She grew up in the Philippines with her grandparents until she was 13 years old. She helped her grandparents look after their farm and properties. Deneise has always enjoyed taking care of animals like their pigs, chickens, dogs and karabaos (swamp-type water buffalo).
Deneise was on the road of pursuing a degree in Nursing but had a shift of interest and decided to work with animals. Prior to joining the MAEVC team, Deneise was a photographer and a dogwalker. She currently has five guinea pigs and four hamsters - if she had a bigger space, without a doubt she would take in more pigs. Other than taking pictures of pigs and hamster during play time, Deneise also likes to play videogames, to try all sorts of food and to travel places near and far.
