KACA OFFICERS

Amber was elected KACA president in 2021 and served as the Vice President before that since 2014. She graduated from Friends University with an Associate's in Biology and a Bachelor's in Zoo Science. She spent the next eight years working as a shelter technician for the Hutchinson Animal Shelter and left in 2014 to work as a supervisor of records for the McPherson Police Department. She is an active member of the Kansas Animal Response Team and also helped develop the curriculum on animal cruelty used by the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center. She has trained several Police Departments on dog behavior and use of force and looks forward to the day when it is required of all law enforcement officers. Besides animal welfare, her passion in life is traveling and challenges herself to go somewhere she's never been every year.

Kendra began her career in Animal Control in June of 2018 when she was hired as the sole Animal Control Officer for the Bonner Springs Police Department. Kendra oversees the city’s first municipal animal control facility which opened its doors in 2022. In addition to managing shelter operations, she also answers calls for service and stays active in the community through a variety of community outreach programs and events. Kendra is passionate about TNR and has trapped hundreds of community cats, making a notable difference in the city’s cat/kitten population. Kendra has established a great working relationship with Bonner Animal Rescue which sponsors the TNR program and the vetting of unclaimed animals.

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Prior to her career in animal control, Kendra worked as a dog and cat groomer and kennel technician for 12 years at a local boarding kennel. Kendra still utilizes her grooming skills as a house call groomer, specializing in cat grooming.

Courtney began her career in Lee’s Summit, Missouri, in 2011, where she worked as an Animal Control Officer for the Lee’s Summit Police Department for eight years. For the last 3 ½ years she has been working as a Community Service Officer with the Prairie Village Police Department, handling all the animal related issues for Prairie Village and Mission Hills, KS. She has a BA in Criminal Justice and Criminology from the University of Missouri – Kansas City. Courtney is also a certified Animal Cruelty Investigator through the Law Enforcement Training Institute at University of Missouri (National Animal Cruelty Investigations School), and is a trained Field Training Officer in her department.

Courtney is a volunteer member of the KS Animal Response Team, Code 3 Associates Disaster Response Team (Riders on the Storm), and ASAR Training and Response: Disaster Response Team. She is also a Regional Partner of Code 3 Associates Animal Control Officer Coalition. Courtney has training in Incident Command Systems, Disaster Preparedness, and National Incident Management Systems through FEMA, and technical animal rescue skills in Animal Ice Rescues, Large Animal Rescue Operations, and Swiftwater and Slackwater/Floodwater Operations through ASAR Training and Response.

In her “free” time, Courtney is a volunteer foster of cats/kittens with Heart of America Humane Society. She also enjoys gardening (yea spring!) and bird watching.