Jesús Rosales-Ruiz, PhD is a behavior analyst who earned his doctorate at the University of Kansas.  He is an associate professor of behavior analysis at the University of North Texas, and the advisor for the Organization for Reinforcement Contingencies with Animals (ORCA) which conducts behavior and training research with animals in natural settings outside the laboratory explicitly for the benefit of the animals and their caregivers.  He is an instructor at ClickerEXPO.  He is the acting director of the Bea Barrett Neuro-operant lab.  He serves on several editorial boards including the European Journal of Behavior Analysis and the International Journal of Psychology and Psychological therapy.  His areas of interest include the antecedent control of behavior, generalization, behavior cusps, fluency-based teaching, treatment of autism, teaching of academic behavior, animal training and rule- and contingency-shaped behavior.

Kellie Snider, MS is the Manager of Animal Behavior Programs at the SPCA of Texas, which is home to as many as 450 animals of various species.  She oversees canine aggression assessments, enrichment, training, handling and environmental enhancements for all animals housed at the organization's two major Dallas area shelters and two clinics, and designs and organizes behavior education classes and events.  The Constructional Aggression Treatment was the subject of her graduate thesis, conducted under the direction of Jesus Rosales-Ruiz.  She has been involved in animal training since 1998 and has been a freelance writer since 1988.  Kellie has organized, hosted and spoken at seminars, retreats and conferences on women’s issues since 1992, and on animal training since 2002.