• English Rider                                                                                02/1995 to Present
  Equestrian                                                                           Chicago, IL, Lexington, KY Weekly lessons and yearly competitions in English riding
   

• Animal Activities Director                                                     05-08/2013, 05-08/2015
  Aldersgate Camp and Retreat Center                                                      Ravenna, KY  Responsibilities included daily care and maintenance of camp lesson horses and various livestock. 
   

• Horse Camp Dean                                                                          Summer 2013-2016
  Aldersgate Camp and Retreat Center                                                       Ravenna, KY
  Responsibilities included teaching those in my care to ride, as well as other summer camp activities with my camp. 
   

• Research Assistant                                                                           10/2011-05/2013  University of Kentucky Poultry Research  Center                                 Lexington, KY  Responsibilities included daily care and maintenance of poultry as well as gathering samples conducted for research
   

• Intern                                                                                                   06/2011-08/2011 Advanced Animal Care                                                                             Richmond, KY Approximately 20 hours a week were spent cleaning cages, walking dogs, assisting veterinarians, and observing surgeries.
   

• Intern                                                                                                   05/2011-06/2011
  Greenwood Rehabilitation Center                                                              Boulder, CO  Approximately 50 hours a week spent rehabilitating various wildlife including birds, squirrels, and raccoons. Nursed the sick and injured back to health, and raised babies until they were ready for release.
   

• Vet Nurse                                                                                               1/19/14-5/15/15  Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital                                                            Lexington, KYResponsibilities included following clinicians' orders, making patient treatment list, preparing and administering medications, monitoring multiple patients' vital signs and reporting any abnormalities or concerns to the shift supervisor, monitoring fluids, following bio-security program, pulling blood from an intravenous catheter, performing basic tests such as PCV/TP and blood glucose, stocking and cleaning assigned barn pharmacies, assisting veterinarians as needed, walking patients, and grooming patients. 
   

• Wildlife Rehabilitator                                                                                      3/14-10/14
  Kentucky Wildlife Center                                                                          Georgetown, KY
  Responsibilities included bottle feeding and/or syringe feeding a variety of young mammals, including raccoons, squirrels, chipmunks, and rabbits, using a dropper to feed bats, cleaning cages, administering medications, and releasing into the wild. 
   

• Placement                                                                                                              12/2016
  Louisville Zoo                                                                                                 Louisville, KY
  Responsibilities primarily included observing, but also cleaning and meal prepping for two tigers, two lions, two bobcats, two maned wolves, lemurs, wallaroos, a snow leopard, and a puma. 
   

• Placement                                                                                              01/2017-02/2017
  Mcdonald's Ranch                                                                                           Phoenix, AZ
  Responsibilities included gathering up the horses from the field, grooming them, tacking them, assisting riders up onto their horses, backing on trails, leading trails, mucking the arena, un-tacking horses, and putting the horses away. 
   

• Clinical Placement                                                                             12/4/17/-12/15/17

West Suburban Veterinary Associates                                                          Westmont, IL

Responsibilities included primarily observing the veterinarians working on small and exotic animals, but also included assisting to hold or clean when needed.  

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