Linda completed her veterinary education at Utrecht University (The Netherlands). Here she expanded her view on the veterinary field by designing her own minor ‘Governance and Policy’. This minor included internships at the United Nations’ Food and Agricultural Organization (Rome, Italy) and St Anna Advies, a veterinary communication and consultancy agency (Nijmegen, The Netherlands). After graduating as a DVM in Companion Animal Medicine (in 2015), Linda worked in various veterinary clinics before starting her PhD at the University of Calgary in 2019.