Enthusiastic, dedicated, and inquisitive, Dr. Stacy Tinkler, DVM, MPH is a large animal veterinarian who has found a way to balance academic and international veterinary work. Stacy is an advocate for working equines, spending substantial time working with communities in Central and South America, helping build capacity for veterinary students and local community members in low resource areas to improve working equine health and welfare. Using a One Health approach, and collaborating with agronomists, crop and feed specialists, local veterinarians, students and animal science professionals, Stacy and her colleagues have developed a training program in Peru that is appropriate to the local context. She got “the bug” on a student trip to Peru working with Dr. Dave Turoff. As she says “Once I went on the international trips as a vet student, I was like, ‘This is what I'm going to do, I'm going to somehow find a way to do this.’ I didn't know how, but I knew I was going to find a way to incorporate this international work into my life. When I started my internal medicine residency, everyone was confused, because they thought I just wanted to do international work, and I did. I just thought I needed more of a background. That's why I did a residency. I didn't have any grandiose visions of being an academic whiz, I just really felt like I wanted and needed to learn more to help the working animals of the world”.