Kiki will teach a lab on loose leash walking and a seminar on naturally occurring reinforcers at ClickerExpo in person in Portland, OR, April 5-7, 2024. Watch a video describing her presentations here, and register here.

Kiki will present at the IAABC Foundation conference in Asheville, NC, May 1-3. Details to come. Register here.

Kiki will serve as a discussant for a symposium on the assessment and treatment of dog behavior challenges and a participant on a panel about prioritizing emotional responses of animal learners at the 50th convention of the Association for Behavior Analysis International in Philadelphia, May 25-27, 2024.

Kiki talked to host Hannah Branigan for an episode of Drinking From the Toilet (episode 183, February 12, 2024) for the last of three episodes on the behavior often referred to as “demand barking.”

Kiki taught a lecture/lab on considerations for choosing alternative behaviors to replace unwanted behaviors at ClickerExpo Live, held virtually January 26-28, 2024.

Kiki talked about behavior change, ethics, and her master’s thesis on an Instagram Live with Agnieszka Janarek of Tromplo (October 29, 2023). A recording is available here.

Kiki spoke with veterinary behaviorists Amy Pike and Amy Learn on an episode of their new podcast Behavior Buzzzzzz with 2 Amys (episode 3, October 8, 2023).

Kiki talked to host Hannah Branigan for an episode of Drinking From the Toilet (episode 176, June 6, 2023) about what all may be going on when we do training procedures that consist of making one stimulus predict another—even if we’re not paying attention to the dog’s behavior.

Kiki went on Karen Pryor Clicker Training’s free monthly livestreamed program Live From the Ranch on June 1, 2023, to talk about barking with Ken Ramirez. The replay is available here.

Kiki presented her master’s thesis research at the 49th Annual Convention of the Association for Behavior Analysis International. Her poster won the Marian Breland Bailey Award for Student Research and Scholarship from ABAI’s Applied Animal Behavior Special Interest Group.

Kiki spoke about a component-skills approach to loose leash walking and creative solutions for tricky barking cases at the annual conference of the International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants, May 4-7, 2023, in Houston. She also sat on a panel to discuss the least-intrusive, minimally aversive ethical standard. Recordings will be made available to attendees.

Kiki spoke at ClickerExpo Live in January 2023 about how stimulus-stimulus pairing (often thought of as classical conditioning) can be used to teach operant behaviors in client-friendly ways and how an operant mindset can improve procedures (like counterconditioning) that typically focus on stimulus-stimulus pairing. The recording is available for purchase here.

Kiki presented at the 2022 conference of the Association of Professional Dog Trainers, October 19-21, in Daytona Beach, Florida, speaking about the complex “dance” that constitutes modern, dog-centered loose leash walking and about nuances and lesser-known uses of stimulus-stimulus pairing. Recordings from the conference are available for purchase.

Kiki successfully defended her master’s thesis and earned her master’s degree in applied behavioral science from the University of Kansas.

Kiki spoke to Charlotte Bayne at the Baroo podcast about barking.

An interview with Kiki by the staff of the Karen Pryor Academy for Animal Training and Behavior, where she is a faculty member.

Kiki spoke to Marissa Martino at the Paws & Reward podcast about barking—when and why it’s a problem, or not, and how to address it in an individualized way. The recording is also watchable on YouTube here.

Kiki and School for the Dogs podcast host Annie Grossman were both journalists before they were dog trainers. A sloppy op-ed about training in the Wall Street Journal got them talking about how hard it is—even for journalists who are earnestly trying—to get good info about dog training, and why.

Kiki joined Jio Alcaide, Taylor Barconey, and host Hannah Branigan for a pet dog training “roundtable” on the Drinking From the Toilet podcast.

Julia Rohan at Rover-Time interviewed Kiki for National Dog Bite Prevention Week.

Kiki talked to fellow KPA CTP and Animal Training Academy (ATA) member Shelly Wood for an episode of Making Ripples, a podcast of interviews with ATA members.

Kiki presented a case study as part of Susan Friedman’s ClickerExpo Live 2021 talk, Now You Know Your ABCs: Putting Functional Assessment to Work

Kiki was profiled by Karen Pryor Academy, an organization that changed her life, as KPA CTP of the month for June 2020.

Kiki talked to Hannah Branigan for an episode of Drinking From the Toilet about the behavior analytic perspective on emotions and how it informs our training.