Philip Tedeschi Author & Editor

Philip Tedeschi is the executive director of the Institute for Human-Animal Connection at the University of Denver’s Graduate School of Social Work. Recognized for his expertise in clinical methods for animal-assisted interventions, he is the founder and coordinator of the university’s Animal-Assisted Social Work and Animals and Human Health Professional Development certificate programs. His teaching, research, and scholarship focus on the bioaffiliative connection between people and animals, animal welfare, interpersonal violence and animal cruelty, social ecological justice, One Health, and bioethics.

Molly Anne Jenkins is an affiliated faculty member with the Graduate School of Social Work’s Institute for Human-Animal Connection at the University of Denver. She previously served as research analyst and human-animal interaction specialist for the American Humane Association, where she managed a national and multiyear study on the effects of animal-assisted intervention for children with cancer, their parents, and participating therapy dogs. Her background and primary interests center on human-animal relationships, animal welfare and behavior, veterinary medicine, social and ecological justice, and One Health.