Dr. Katie Lambden grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area in a small house in the city with a big collection of pets, including chickens, ducks, rabbits, guinea pigs, dogs, and cats. Her first career goal as a child was to be a veterinarian. After graduating from the University of California, Santa Cruz, with a degree in biology, she became distracted by bicycling and travel and ended up spending several years bike touring and racing semi-professionally. After starting a family, she made her way to vet school (Tufts, in Massachusetts), and graduated in 2014. In her spare time, she enjoys camping, hiking, and trying to keep up with a growing collection of farm animals (including a thoroughbred mare and several Nigerian dwarf goats) and house pets (including 5 dogs and 4 cats). Dr. Lambden became acquainted with The Street Dog Coalition in 2020 and is thrilled to be part of the mission to help nurture and sustain the human-animal bond in pets and their people struggling with homelessness.