“I love my job so much. I use the observational skills I learned through my graduate work with Dr. DeLong in the Comparative Cognition and Perception Lab every day when training my dogs."
October 31, 2023
...My experience at RIT has made me a really successful service dog trainer." — Irene Fobe, Experimental Psychology MS, '17
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Irene Fobe earned a master's in experimental psychology from RIT in 2017 and created a career training dogs for people with mobility and neurocognitive disabilities. As the Client Field Trainer at Freedom Service Dogs of America in Denver, Colorado, she matches people with service dogs and provides lifetime support.