Meet Friendswood Animal Needs & Solutions

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Marci Vinciguerra is a Friendswood High School Alumni.  After graduation, she began her studies at Baylor University, transferred to Louisiana State University and earned a Bachelor of Interior Design.  She is the President and Senior Designer of V Design, a small interior and event design firm in Friendswood, TX.  

Over the years and different duty stations, Marci has worked with 11 different nonprofit organizations and served on the board of six.  In addition to volunteering at the shelter, she has served as a Friendswood Mustang Booster Club representative the last four years. 

She met LTjg AlDante Vinciguerra of Penns Grove, NJ when he was stationed in Galveston, Texas.  They married in 1998, relocating 8 times.  They returned to Friendswood in 2021 when Dante retired as a CAPT from the Coast Guard.

Marci and Dante have four children.  Giavanna is a 2023 Friendswood High School graduate attending Southern Methodist University running cross country and track.  Asia is a 2025 FHS graduate attending the University of Miami majoring in Engineering.  Dominic and plays football and runs track.  He will graduate from FHS in 2028 and Damian plays football and baseball and will graduate in 2032.  

Marci was bound to fall in love with one of her foster animals.  She adopted her now 125 pound Cane Corso, Sicilia “CiCi”, who loves visiting the shelter and participating in playgroups and assessments when needed.  CiCi was a medical foster that needed to gain weight and in need of medical care.  She and their cat Sashimi “Sashi”, a rescue from Miami, greet Marci every day when she comes home.  They remind her how lucky we are to have the unconditional love of animals.