Jon Geller, DVM, DABVP Emeritus, MPH
HumaneVMA Colorado State Co-Representative 

After working as an emergency veterinarian for 20 years, Dr. Jon Geller founded  The Street Dog Coalition, which provides free medical care to pets of those experiencing homelessness. The Street Dog Coalition has volunteer veterinary teams in over 40 US cities.  Dr. Geller graduated from CSU College of Veterinary Medicine in 1995, and became board-certified in Canine and Feline Medicine by The American Board of Veterinary Practitioners in 2010. He has also been active in the field of wildlife animal welfare issues as a committee member for the inaugural Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee for the National Park Service.

His current areas of focus are street medicine and encouraging collaboration with other health care practitioners in providing One Health street outreach to underserved communities.

Michelle Dally, DVM, JD
HumaneVMA Colorado State Co-Representative

Dr. Michelle Dally is a mixed-animal veterinarian who ran her own mobile practice for 6.5 years in rural western CO while providing veterinary services for the local shelter which served three counties. She is accredited as a veterinary medical acupuncturist and fear free handler. She moved to Florida in 2020 and started a Brevard County chapter of The Street Dog Coalition and served as the HumaneVMA’s Florida State Co-Representative. Later that year she was asked to serve on the board of the SDC. She currently works as a relief vet in between her volunteer work with the Street Dog Coalition.  She recently moved back to Colorado and is now serving as the HumaneVMA State Co-Representative there. 

Before entering vet school at 44, she was a lawyer, and served as a Senate legislative aide and later, a political journalist. She shared in a Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for coverage of the Columbine Massacre and published a novel titled “A Highly Placed Source” in 2006. She and her husband raised 4 boys in a blended family in a fairly messy house full of adopted and foster dogs.

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