Our Staff
Flo - Manager
Flo joined the Grace Veterinary Center team August 2024. She has been in the veterinary field for over thirty years. Her love for animals started when she was a young girl and her father brought home her first dog. Since then she has had many different species of animals through out her life. Making a point to raise her children with a true love and respect for all animals.
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Flo shares her life with her three dogs Bambi, Daisy and Oliva. She also has a bird Kiwi. Her favorite thing to do is spending time with her kids and grandkids. She also enjoys going out with her friends from grade school.
Anna - Client Service Coordinator
Anna has been with the Grace Veterinary Center family since August of 2022. You will see her front and center behind the reception desk when you come in! She does also on occasion hop to the treatment area to help our fabulous team of technicians and doctors when they need a hand.
She grew up in Joliet, IL and has been in this field for about 10 years. Her husband Raul and her share three beautiful fur babies together who they love to pieces. Stella their oldest is a 10yr old female Pitbull/Boxer mix, DJ their 9yr old male Pitbull, and lastly is Zeus their 8yr old male Pitbull. She could not imagine her life without any of them. They are all such a big part of why she has chosen to be in this field. She has always loved animals and knew that she wanted to work with them from a young age.
She has worked in rescue hosting adoption events and placing animals into their forever homes and have also worked in a few animal clinics and hospitals. She has had many different roles such as working Reception, helping assist the doctors in exam rooms, filling prescriptions, purchasing supplies and tracking inventory for previous clinics. It has been an absolute pleasure working at Nighthawk. She truly consider herself lucky to have found such a great clinic. Everyone here is beyond
Crystal - Client Service Coordinator
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Katelyn - Client Service Coordinator
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Allison - Certified Veterinary Technician
Allison has been with the Grace Veterinary Center family since April 18th 2022 and passed her boards 2023. Being raised on a farm, she was always around animals, to the big: horses, cows, and sheep to the small: chicken, cats, and dogs. The TVs shows that she would watch growing up really inspired her to work with animals (the Crocodile Hunter, Kratt Brothers).
What she loves about this field is knowing that she can help people’s pets feel better gives her peace of mind. One of the hardest parts of this field is seeing the neglected animals knowing someone has done this breaks her heart.
Her favorite quote is “We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents”- Bob Ross.
Her hobbies include spending time with her family, friends, yoga, painting, and reading. She has 3 cats: Wednesday female 7 yrs black DSH, Friday female 3 yrs gray/white Tabby, and Whiskey female 3 yrs brown/black Bengal. They all have green eyes, but very different personalities. She loves watching them chase each other, also jumping all over the furniture, and using the laser pointer. Her favorite is when they all cuddle around her making it hard for her to move.
Darian - Certified Veterinary Technician
Darien has been a Technician in veterinary medicine for 4 years until she recieved her Certified Veterinary Technician license (CVT) in 2024. She started in emergency but found her passion working for a general practice. She started with Grace December 2024 and has thoroughly enjoyed her time her thus far. Her favorite part of her job is being in surgery and advocating for all animals that enter the clinic. In her spare time she enjoys building with Legos, hiking and doing freelance nature photography. She has two dogs and three cats at home that she loves very much: Juneau, Piper, Roo, Fisher and Ghost.
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Rachal - Certified Veterinary Technician
Rachel is a Certified veterinary technician. She graduated from the Joliet Junior College Veterinary Technology program in May of 2024. She started at Grace Veterinary Center in November 2024. She currently lives with four fur babies at home. A small dog, two cats and a chinchilla.
Natalie - Veterinary Assistant
Natalie joined the Grace Veterinary Center team in August 2024. She has been working in the veterinary field for 3 years now. She helps our technicians and doctors all things around the clinic. She is always willing to lend a helping hand. Her favorite area in the clinic is assisting staff with surgical procedures. Ever since she was a young girl, she had always wanted to work with animals and has made this her passion. She has two lovely dogs, Mika an 8 year old Akita and Kavik an 8 year old Alaskan Malamute. Her hobbies include spending time with her family, friends and riding horses. She competes in the United States Eventing Association (USEA) competitions for Dressage and Eventing!
Lori - Veterinary Assistant
Lori started working with Grace Veterinary Center in 2024. Ever since she was a little girl, she had a passion to help animals in any way she could - from helping to raise puppies find their forever homes to catching a baby raccoon that was falling out of a tree. Throughout high school, she was able to shadow at other clinics to see how veterinary medicine is put into practice. She graduated high school in 2014 and went straight into college at Joliet Junior College wo work towards her degree. Through her time in college, she became a mother to a beautiful little girl. It was difficult being a single mother, working and going to college full time but she kept at it! She graduated from Joliet Junior College in the Veterinary Medical Technology Program in May of 2024. She is soon to be a Certified Veterinary Technician (CVT). She loves providing aid to animals in order for them to live happy and healthy lifes. She can't wait to see what the future has in store for her while taking this journey.