Brenda Jarillo earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts with high honors from C.W. Post of Long Island University in 2002. She promptly left behind the photography studio for a career in hospitality, managing restaurants and helming bars in Brooklyn, San Francisco, and Boston. Seeking a way to combine further learning with her interests, Brenda was inspired by her lifelong love of four-legged and furry animals to pursue a new area of hospitality within a community-oriented veterinary environment. Her free time finds her buried in innumerable pursuits of creative craft, consuming untold volumes of cheese, biking, canoeing rain or shine with her partner, and napping with her two elderly pups [citation].