Workforce Advocacy
Title protection, in every state.
We push for licensure, title protection, and scope of practice that reflects what credentialed veterinary technicians are actually trained to do.
The American Association of Credentialed Veterinary Technicians
Credentialed veterinary technicians are essential to modern veterinary medicine.
AACVT exists to advance credentialed veterinary technicians as essential healthcare professionals — through workforce advocacy, credential integrity, and leadership built by credentialed veterinary technicians, for credentialed veterinary technicians.
Credentialed veterinary technicians in practice — across companion animal, large animal, exotic, and research medicine.
Meet the professionOur beginning
Started by credentialed veterinary technicians who stopped waiting.
AACVT began as a group of credentialed veterinary technicians and educators who kept meeting the same barriers — and decided to build the association the profession was missing.
What AACVT is building
There is a gap. AACVT exists to close it.
Many credentialed veterinary technicians lack access to the leadership development, professional resources, and collaborative community needed to grow within the profession. Through member-driven initiatives, we focus on three areas of need.
Credential Integrity
The credential has to mean something.
Clear, consistent standards for practice and ethical conduct — so employers, regulators, and the public know what a credential guarantees.
Leadership Development
Building the next bench.
Opportunities to lead initiatives, serve on committees, and help shape the profession from inside it rather than waiting to be invited.
Mission & vision
Strengthening the professional role of credentialed veterinary technicians.
Mission
AACVT exists to advance credentialed veterinary technicians as essential healthcare professionals.
Vision
A profession where credentialed veterinary technician is a protected title nationwide, and crVTs practice at the top of their license.
Areas of focus
Member-driven initiatives, built where the need is.
Professional Education
Tools for career growth
Accessible education, practical guidance, and resources that meet credentialed veterinary technicians at every stage of a career.
Professional Empowerment
Strengthening voices
Space to connect, share expertise, and build a stronger professional identity together.
Representation
Championing the whole profession
From general practice to zoo medicine, research to rehabilitation — one association that speaks for all of it.
Speakers BureauComing soon
The AACVT Speakers Bureau.
We're building a national roster of credentialed veterinary technicians ready to teach, keynote, and testify — so conferences, schools, associations, and legislators can find the right expert fast. The directory launches soon. Applications are open now.
Vetted expertise
Every speaker is a credentialed veterinary technician with verified specialty, teaching, or advocacy experience.
Every format
Conference sessions, wet labs, podcasts, webinars, panels, and legislative testimony.
Booked directly
Organizers browse by topic and region, then reach the speaker without a middleman.
Applications take about five minutes: your credentials, speaking topics, preferred formats, and a short bio. Our team reviews every application and will be in touch as the Speakers Bureau launches.
Member Directory
Find your people.
The AACVT member directory connects credentialed veterinary technicians across the country. Search by name, credential, specialty, or location — members control their own visibility and can opt in or out of the listing at any time. The directory is a members-only benefit.
Leadership
Our Founding Board of Directors
Meet the AACVT leaders advancing credentialed veterinary technician standards and advocacy nationwide.
President
Sarah Kolb
JD, BAS, CVT, VTS (AVTCP-Exotic Companion Animal)
President Elect
Tabitha Kucera
RVT, VTS (Behavior), KPA-CTP, CCBC
Treasurer
Ryan Frazier
MBA, BS, LVT, Certified Career Coach
Founding Director
Beckie Mossor
BIS, MPA, RVT
Director
Anne Marie McPartlin
CVT, LVT, RVT, CVA
Director
Jenny Cassibry Fisher
RVT, VTS (Oncology)
Director
Theresa Cosper-Roberts
MA, RVT, CVPM, ACVE (DE)
Our people
This is what the credential looks like.
Real members, real patients — from neonatal kittens to dairy herds to the cat who would rather be anywhere else.
Dispatch
From the wire.
Partners
Our partners.
Organizations standing alongside AACVT to advance credentialed veterinary technicians.
Continuing education
The community CE calendar.
Conferences, wet labs, webinars, and local meetups run by and for credentialed veterinary technicians. Hosting something? Submit it and we'll add it to the calendar.
September 2026
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Membership · 2026
Your voice, multiplied.
Membership carries credentialed veterinary technicians forward — education, toolkits, community, and a member directory. See what membership carries you.
Student & new-graduate rates available
Swag Shop
Wear the credential.
Tees, hoodies, tumblers, and stickers. Every order backs advocacy, education, and community for credentialed veterinary technicians.