The Association for Animal Welfare Advancement Learning Center
11-13-25 CAWA Curious Chat
Includes a Live Web Event on 11/13/2025 at 2:00 PM (EST)
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Curious about the Certified Animal Welfare Administrator (CAWA) Exam?
Interested in expanding your knowledge and boosting your skills? Looking to power up your future career opportunities? Then the CAWA credential may be for you!
CAWA is the only leadership credential in animal welfare. You earn your CAWA by studying for and taking a rigorous exam.
Join a conversation with the CAWA program director and several CAWAs. Ask us anything about the program — from eligibility to studying tips to why the CAWA credential is a boon to your leadership ambitions. Learn about the new exam and how the program works.
Have questions that can't wait? Visit the CAWA webpages or email Valerie Sheppard at learning@theaawa.org.
This conversation will be recorded.
Valerie Sheppard
Senior Director, Professional Development & Credentialing
The Association for Animal Welfare Advancement
Valerie Sheppard has spent more than 20 years helping professionalize animal welfare staff, first as the head of HSUS' Humane Society University, the first online learning program in animal welfare, and then managing the ASPCApro's elearning and webinar program.
Valerie has been with The Association since 2018. She leads the CAWA credential program, The Association's Conference Committee, and our online professional development site, The Learning Center. She has hosted more than 500 webinars, and counting.
Valerie has a Bachelor's degree in Theatre from Smith College, and a Masters in Counseling plus a Post-Masters Certificate in Career Counseling from Johns Hopkins University.
