CARDA Peabody Award:
This annual award recognizes an outstanding member who exemplifies what it means to be a great representative of and contributor to CARDA. All active members are eligible and any active member may submit a nomination. Nominees could be a sponsor, an evaluator, a Board Member, a handler, a dispatcher, a mentor, and/or a champion within the ranks.
Kristin Pugh has been a member of CARDA since 2010. She has certified two dogs (area and HRD) and is working on her third dog now (area). She is a member of the PR/Fundraising, Newsletter and Veteran Handler/Lateral transfer committees. Kristin has been an evaluator on over 70 certification tests and serves as the MidPeninsula Training Group leader since 2015.
Since 2012 she has also been a member of Santa Cruz County Sheriff Search and Rescue team where she serves as one of the lead volunteer coordinators.