ABSTRACT
My career in the field of HAI began one June afternoon inside a hot, sweaty #1 train below Broadway, as my eyes lit on an ad for a domestic violence crisis hotline: “Has your partner ever threatened or hurt your pet?” As a recent college graduate who planned to apply to Ph.D. programs in clinical psychology but hadn’t yet identified her intended area of focus (an existential crisis one must resolve before writing a successful application), I was lucky to have my lightbulb moment there in that train. I loved animals, and even fostered cats in my miniscule Manhattan apartment—but never realized I could fuse that extracurricular passion with my professional path. I wish this book had been around back then!
