Kennady Brinley is an Adjunct Professor at Unity Environmental University. She received a M.S. in Marine Science from Unity studying both the conservation of marine mammals and marine predators, a B.S. in Marine Science from the University of West Florida, and is finishing a Graduate Certificate in Wildlife Forensics from the University of Florida’s College of Veterinary Medicine. Kennady has been involved in both the Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response Program and Sea Turtle Stranding and Salvage Network as a Stranding Coordinator in northwest Florida, wildlife rehabilitation as a Wildlife Technician, and in education as a high school biology and marine biology instructor. Her graduate studies focused on the negative human interactions with bottlenose dolphins in the northern Gulf of Mexico and Oceanic whitetip shark population recovery. Some of her most memorable moments working in the stranding response field were assisting in a network-wide necropsy of a fin whale, working with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute on the dissection of a Blainville’s beaked whale melon, assisting in manatee health assessments, discussing shark behavior and safe viewing guidelines during presentations and news interviews, and starting the first Stranding Response Internship in Collaboration with the University of West Florida’s Marine Biology Program. She is very passionate about coexistence with marine wildlife and educating her students and the general public on the importance of conservation. Coming from a landlocked state, and being back home in Kentucky, she is focused on bringing marine biology and other environmental science aspects into her high school biology classroom. Outside of education, she focuses most of her time as a volleyball coach.