Kate graduated from the University of Sydney last century (1995!) with a BVSc and in 2007 gained Membership into the ANZCVS in Surgery, also being awarded the College Prize that same year. She and her wife currently own a small practice in Batemans Bay on the NSW South Coast, she is the Web administrator for the Surgery Chapter of the ANZCVS and President of Australian Rainbow Veterinarians and Allies, a support and advocacy group for LGBTIQA+ identifying people in the veterinary industry. Most of this stuff was relatively easy though compared to telling her wife and then the world that she is trans.