Los Angeles, CA
Team Leads:
Juliet Beynon
(Director of k9 connection) I first heard about the Street Dog Coalition in June 2020, from one of our supporters, Lane Murphy at the Banfield Foundation, who contacted SDC to let them know about k9 connection and our Pets' Landing Project. Very quickly, we were able to find a venue and a veterinarian willing to serve as a Team Lead and we held our first street clinic on Skid Row in August 2020. We've been going strong ever since with an established quarterly schedule in the months of March, June, September and December. We’ve been running four smaller clinics on the Westside accessible to pet owners in Venice and are in the process of securing a larger venue to match the scale of the Skid Row clinics, also on a quarterly basis.
Elizabeth Olken, DVM
Dr. Olken grew up between Upstate New York and Vermont and graduated from Skidmore College near Albany, NY with a bachelor's degree in Theater and Political Science, planning to pursue law school. After working as a paralegal in Manhattan after college, she decided to pursue the passion she had as a child, working with animals. She graduated with honors from Colorado State University College of Veterinary Medicine in 2022 and also holds a master's degree in animal welfare. Dr. Olken lives in Los Angeles with her pitbull mix Lou and her husband Dan. She enjoys the outdoors, the cello, volunteering, and spending time with her family in the LA area. She currently works as an associate veterinarian at VCA Brentwood Animal Hospital, in West LA.
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