Bailey Eagan is a PhD student working under the supervision of Dr Alexandra Protopopova in the Animal Welfare Program at the University of British Columbia. Her doctoral research is primarily focused on investigating methods to understand and mitigate stress in shelter cats in partnership with the British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (BC SPCA). For her MSc, under the supervision of Dr David Fraser, Bailey worked to understand why cats and dogs end up in shelters in the first place with the aim of keeping companion animals in homes when appropriate, as well as assessing how sound impacts cat fear behaviour to improve cat welfare in shelters.