Juliette Nash
From cats to whales and back again, a behaviorists journey. By age two, Juliette's life goals already included "working with animals". She observed, studied, and worked with domestics, wildlife, and marine mammals through various roles through college and began dog training professionally while in graduate school. Shortly after completing her M.S. studying vocal learning and it's relationships with social behavior in killer whales, Juliette decided to bring her passion for pets and education back to the forefront and joined the Behavior & Training department at San Diego Humane Society in 2018. Since that time, Juliette’s focus has been on supporting existing programs while creatively expanding the range of B&T/Community Animal Training services offered to support our adopters and larger community. These programs include free Post Adoption Consults, presence at or hosting community events, article and video content creation, and a robust Behavior Helpline- which saw over 1700 inquiries last year. Since 2020 our pet training program expanded to 35+ classes which were offered in person, online, and on-demand and were attended by folks around the world. These classes included 2 cat inclusive and 5 cat specific courses, all taught live, including the first live online Shy Cat class, for cats experiencing significant to situational fear. She also created the first-of-its-kind Pet Training Assistance Fund to increase access to classes for in-need families to mitigate rehoming and increase success. She works with a team of local contract trainers and over the past year and a half has hired three additional Community Animal Trainers to support these programs and allow for additional growth. She is immensely grateful to San Diego Humane Society for their support and encouragement of her many "I have an idea" moments. Recent successes include her father saying he was, "impressed she managed to make a career out of working with animals" and taking her CPAT-KA certifying exam. She currently lives with 3 indoor cats, 2 community cats, and her partner (who is also indoors). Her hobbies include cooking, costuming, and talking about behavior until begged to stop.
