EDUCATION
Living and Learning with Animals professional course
audit one to two times per year from 2014 through August 2024.
This is an 8-session course with live lectures and access to questions and answers from class participants and teaching assistants
Living and Learning with Animals taught by Dr. Susan Friedman, PhD
participant November 2013
Animal Behavior Research Readers taught by Dr. Christy Aliigood, PhD
participant spring 2023-present
How Research Works audited class taught by Dr. Christy Alligood, PhD
May 2024
How Research Works taught by Dr. Susan Friedman, PhD
participant May 2022
Natural Encounters, Inc. 1-week TEC talks - naturalencounters.com
2020 NEI TEC talks
2-3 sessions per topic:
Least Intrusive Principle; Prompts; Shaping; FOCUS on Raptors; Trust; Control; Motivation
Chicken Camp with Bob Bailey
Hot Springs, AR 2004
San Francisco SPCA Academy for Dog Trainers Jean Donaldson May 2001.
May-July SF SPCA internship focus on dog-dog reactivity; resource relinquishment
In Reno, I worked as a trainer at the SPCA of Northern Nevada July 2001-July 2003
worked with shelter dogs, taught dog training classes, provided assessments, new volunteer orientation, and recorded adoptable dog segments for local news
BA Art History 1993
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Florence, Italy
University of Connecticut study abroad
Fall 1991 to Summer 1992
