Dr. Katherine Baxter is the CEO of the Alliance for Human Animal Coexistence, which she co-founded in 2024 alongside her Kenyan colleague after working for four years on animal protection issues across Africa as the CEO of the Africa Network for Animal Welfare-USA. Since 2013 she has worked in academia, government, and the non-profit sector across North America, Europe, the Middle East, South East Asia, and Africa – always endeavoring to cultivate innovative, multi-sectoral, and evidence-based solutions to complex social and environmental problems affecting both humans and other animals. Her research, teaching, and non-profit work has focused primarily on human-animal relationships in a global context, with a special interest in mechanisms of social change and the convergence of theory and practice when it comes to effectualizing culturally nuanced solutions to the social problem that is animal exploitation. She is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Denver where she has taught graduate courses that explore these issues in context, and she holds an M.Sc. and a scholarship-funded Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh with a focus on human-animal interactions and regenerative development. She is driven by a deep commitment to creating a more compassionate and ecoliterate world, for the benefit of all sentient beings.