Bonnie Bergin, Ed.D., is the president of the Assistance Dog Institute (www.assistancedog.org), the world’s only academic college that awards associate and master’s degrees in dog studies. Her latest initiative, the High Schooled Assistance Dog Program, teaches at-risk youths to train assistance dogs for people with disabilities. The author of two dog-training books and winner of Oprah Winfrey’s Use Your Life Award, she lives in Santa Rosa, California.