Cindy Davis RVT is a co-founder of The Donkey Welfare Symposium and well-known to donkey lovers everywhere. Between her many presentations on various donkey topics, she is a resource for the donkey community, providing consultations on everything from behavior to nutrition. Cindy got her start in the field 30 years ago working with horses as a surgical assistant, field anesthetist, veterinary nurse and an animal disaster responder. Much of that time she was the resident veterinary technician, colt trainer, and breeding manager on a thoroughbred farm. As a surgery technician she worked at the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital at UC Davis, where she provided patient care while teaching hundreds of students the basics of equine veterinary nursing, horse handling, bandaging, catheter placement and field anesthesia. Her superior horse skills and her extraordinary finesse in anesthetizing untrained range horses is unmatched and has made her an essential element in safely delivering quality health care to underserved equine populations. Since she began working with the Rural Area Veterinary Services of the Humane Society of the United States (RAVS) program in 2003, and since co-founding RVETS (Rural Veterinary Experience, Teaching and Service) in 2010, she has anesthetized thousands of horses in all sorts of field situations. Cindy has published detailed procedures and an extensive instructional curriculum that is required of all volunteers who participate in the RVETS programs in Mexico, Nicaragua and on Native American Reservations in the USA. Her interest in donkeys began while working with RVETS in Mexico, where the idea of The Donkey Welfare Symposium was born. The burros that she saw in the rural communities were so gentle and so important to the people in the mountains that she could not help but fall in love with them. Cindy and her husband, Eric, began accumulating donkeys at their ranch outside of Dixon, CA, each one came from a difficult situation and needed a home. Currently, while devoting full time to caring for her donkeys (and one mini-mule) and four rescued horses, Cindy continues to be dedicated to improving donkey lives through her teaching and research. Donkeys and their owners are fortunate to have Cindy focused on their welfare.