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Kari Bagnall is founder and director of Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary offering a safe haven to over 100 new-world monkeys. Most were cast off from the exotic pet trade, others were retired from laboratory research and some were confiscated by the authorities. Kari was introduced to vegetarianism 40+ years ago when she moved into a yoga ashram. Today, as part of the sanctuary culture, people are encouraged to adopt a vegan lifestyle and to join us in the hope that these individual acts of kindness across species will one day reach the 'critical mass' needed to transform the world. |
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Gene Baur is the president and co-founder of Farm Sanctuary, the nation's leading farm animal protection organization. He has a masters degree in agricultural economics from Cornell University and has conducted hundreds of visits to farms, stockyards and slaughterhouses to document conditions. His photos and videos, exposing factory farming cruelty have been aired internationally, educating millions. Gene has been vegan since 1985 and is author of the national best-selling book Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals & Food. |
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Josephine Bellaccomo is an executive coach, activist and award-winning author of Move the Message: Your Guide to Making a Difference and Changing the World, Josephine has coached over 1,000 corporate citizens and activists to communicate persuasively to people with power. Her workshops provide practical, winning techniques to help activists appear and feel comfortable and confident in front of groups, and to quickly and easily organize a clear, compelling, results-oriented message. |
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Hope
Bohanec has been active in Animal
Rights for over 20 years, organizing
successful campaigns with Sonoma
People for Animal Rights (SPAR)
throughout the 90’s. In 2002,
she founded Vegan Voices, focusing
on education and outreach for farm
animals. Hope was the Sonoma County
Coordinator for Proposition 2 and
soon after that victory, fused
Vegan Voices into the new Farm
Animal Protection Project (FAPP).
She has most recently offered her
organizational talents to In
Defense of Animals (IDA) as their Grassroots
Field Director. |
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Jenny Brown is the Co-Founder and Director of the Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary—a not-for-profit organization and farm animal shelter located in the Catskill Mountains of New York. Jenny is an outspoken vegan animal rights activist who previously worked as a Television Producer until 2002 when she went undercover in Texas to film farmed animal abuse. Jenny’s story and the work of her sanctuary has been featured in the New York Times, Cosmopolitan Magazine, New York Magazine, New York Daily News, NPR’s Weekend America and more. You can read more about her and the sanctuary at WoodstockSanctuary.org |
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Michael
Budkie, A.H.T., is the
co-founder & Executive Director
of Stop
Animal Exploitation NOW! (SAEN).
After witnessing the atrocities
of animal experimentation during
his education, he successfully
ended a head injury experiment
on cats at the Univ. of Cincinnati.
This campaign launched his career
leading to positions with several
national organizations. In the
mid-1990s, Michael founded SAEN,
which has been successful in terminating
research projects & forcing the
USDA to take legal action against
laboratories. During his
20+ years of activism, he has been
published & traveled extensively,
appearing on TV & radio
programs to expose the truth about
animal experimentation.
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Jon
Camp is Director of
Outreach for Vegan
Outreach,
which publishes and distributes
millions of booklets promoting
veganism throughout the world.
As of March 2010, over eleven million hard copies of Vegan Outreach brochures have been handed out by members of Vegan Outreach. Jon travels across the US leafleting on behalf of Vegan Outreach's Adopt a College campaign; in the past 6 years, he has handed out over 500,000 booklets at 400 schools. |
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Leigh-Chantelle is the creator and operator of Viva la Vegan! and the Vivalavegan.net web site which focuses on easy to prepare recipes and articles as well as interactive features including forum, videos, interviews, and connectivity to other like-minded individuals.Over the past 13 years since Leigh-Chantelle has been a vegan she has been involved as a sponsor, performer, speaker and stall holder for various vegan/vegetarian and cruelty free fundraisers, organizations and festivals throughout Australia. |
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Rick
Corbett strapped
into the animal movement at the
age of 13, specializing in farmed
animal issues and youth outreach.
At the age of 21, he now holds
2 bachelor’s degrees, speaks
4 languages, has spoken all over
the country, and received an award for his
activism at AR 2005. He is speaking
on the youth outreach, grassroots
activism, and individual activism
panels. He lives and works in Los
Angeles, CA. |
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Charlotte Cressey is a student, animal rights activist, yoga instructor, and expert on the many aspects of veganism. She is the Director of Community Outreach for Orange County People for Animals, a non-profit 501(c)3 animal advocacy group in Southern California. Charlotte began giving presentations to the public in 2000 and continues educating others in a positive, inspiring manner. As a devoted animal advocate, Charlotte aims to help others see the interconnectedness of all living beings. |
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Saurabh
Dalal advocates
for veganism and Ahinsa
(non-violence) as compelling
solutions to many global problems.
He is Deputy Chair of the International
Vegetarian Union, President
of the Vegetarian
Union of North America, President
of the Vegetarian
Society of DC, and volunteers
in various capacities with
numerous like-minded non-profits.
A lifelong vegetarian and vegan
since 1991, Saurabh holds
graduate degrees in Physics
and Engineering and explores
ways to integrate sound science
into the movement. |
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Karen
Davis is
the founder and President
of United
Poultry Concerns,
Inc., a nonprofit organization
that promotes the compassionate
and respectful treatment
of domestic fowl and includes
a sanctuary. She has a PhD
in English from the University
of Maryland-College Park
where she taught for 12 years
in the English Department
and pioneered a course on
the role of animals in the
Western philosophic and literary
tradition. In 2002,
Karen was inducted into the
U.S. Animal Rights Hall of
Fame. She
has also authored many
essays, articles, & books. To learn more about Karen and her latest book Prisoned Chickens, Poisoned Eggs, click on www.upc-\online.org/karenbio.htm.
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Gerorge Eisman,MA, MSc, RD is Nutrition Director of The Coalition for Cancer Prevention through Plant-Based
Eating, co-founder and first chairman-elect of the Vegetarian Nutrition
Practice Group of the American Dietetic Association. He is the author of The Most Noble
Diet, A Basic Course in Vegetarian and Vegan Nutrition and Don't Let Your
Diet Add to your Cancer Risk. He has taught nutrition at the college and
university level since 1980.
George was inducted into Vegetarian Hall of Fame by the N. American Vegetarian Soc in 1993. |
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Bruce Friedrich is vice-president of policy and government affairs for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). Before joining PETA more than 10 years ago, Bruce spent six years running a shelter for homeless families and soup kitchen in Washington, D.C., as well as leading demonstrations on behalf of unions, a living wage, and other causes. He has been a progressive activist for more than 20 years. |
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Carrie Packwood Freeman, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of
Communication at Georgia State University. She researches
communication strategies for social justice movements as well as the
media's coverage of animal
agribusiness and veganism. Her master's thesis analyzed the media's construction of farmed animals, and her doctoral
dissertation examines how AR organizations construct values
related to animal welfare and animal rights in vegetarian campaigns.
She's been active in the movement for
almost two decades and has run local grassroots groups in Florida,
Georgia, and Oregon.
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George
Guimaraes is a vegan
dietitian and animal rights
activist in Brazil. As a dietitian,
his practice is dedicated to the
research of vegetarian diets
and counseling of vegetarian patients.
He is also a regular lecturer and
a writer. Guimaraes is the director
of two vegan restaurants, VEGETHUS,
and
the founder of VEDDAS (Ethical
Vegetarianism, Animal Rights Defense
& Society). VEDDAS holds educational
activities, protests and lawsuits
on issues ranging from vivisection
to animal farming & entertainment. |
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Camille
Hankins is co-founder
of Win
Animal Rights (WAR), a
group of hardcore, grassroots,
direct action campaigners dedicated
to ending to the brutality
and killing at Huntingdon Life
Sciences and to ultimately bring total
animal liberation. With almost
20 years of sales, marketing
and management expertise, Camille
specializes in using her knowledge
base to capitalize on critical
weaknesses of animal exploitation
businesses. She also acts
as a Press Officer for the N.
American Animal Liberation Press
Office and annually serves as
Exhibit Coordinator for the AR
national conferences. |
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Denis Henry Hennelly is a co-owner of Open Road Films. Open Road's latest project BOLD NATIVE is a film on animal liberation and the people some call terrorists and some call heroes -- the A.L.F. Denis directed and wrote BOLD NATIVE With his business partner Casey Suchan, and has produced and directed numerous documentary films and videos on Hip Hop culture, animal rights, and activism. Open Road's next two projects are an online vegan cooking show (sporkonline.com) and the SHAC7 documentary with Finngate Pictures and Z-Axis Productions. |
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Alex
Hershaft, Ph.D. is the Conference Chair and founder of
the Vegetarian Information
Service in 1976 and FARM (Farm Animal Rights Movement) in
1982. He launched World Farm Animals
Day in 1983, the Great American
Meatout in 1985, Gentle Thanksgiving
in 1990, and he has organized
17 national Animal Right
conferences. He is a
member of the Vegetarian
and the Animal Rights Hall
of Fame. Dr. Hershaft describes himself
as a "late bloomer",
having accomplished all this
after earning a Ph.D. in
chemistry and devoting nearly
30 years to science research
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Julieanna Hever, M.S., R.D., C.P.T. is known as the Plant-Based Dietitian. Julieanna counsels, lectures and writes about the miracles associated with consuming a whole food, plant-based diet. As an instructor for Dr. T. Colin Campbells eCornell Plant-Based Certification Program and co-producer of Going Veg with the Plant-Based Dietitian, Julieanna is passionate about spreading the message throughout the globe with the ultimate goal of improving the health of humans and the environment and alleviating the needless suffering of billions of animals. To learn more, visit Julieanna at her website and blog.
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Leanne Mai-ly Hilgart is the founder of Vaute Couture, a line of vegan coats and apparel that have been purchased by Alicia Silverstone, Emily Deschanel, Ally Sheedy and Ginnifer Goodwin. The fall-winter 2010 line debuted at New York City Fashion Week, featuring the first vegan (wool and down free) and eco-conscious insulated winter coat line. By opting for vegan fashions, Leanne says, you're doing your part to make a difference for the world beyond your wardrobe. More at VauteCouture.com |
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Lorri
Houston, founder of Animal
Acres, is considered the "pioneer" of
the farmed animal sanctuary
movement. In 1986, Lorri co-founded
Farm Sanctuary, which opened
the country's first sanctuary
for farmed animals. For 18
years, she directed the group's
rescue and fundraising efforts.
Through her farm animal sanctuary
efforts, Lorri has directly
saved thousands of animals
from the cruelties of factory
farms, stockyards and slaughterhouses,
and brought national attention
to the plight of animals used
for "food production." |
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Pattrice
Jones, coordinator
of the Eastern
Shore Sanctuary & Education
Center,
nurtures and advocates for
chickens in the heart of a
rural region dominated by the
poultry industry. An activist
in various social change movements
since the 1970s and the
coordinator of the Global
Hunger Alliance, Pattrice
speaks and writes frequently
of the connections between
earth, animal, and human
liberation.
She is the author of Aftershock:
Confronting Trauma in a Violent
World: A Guide for Activists
and Their Allies. |
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Melanie Joy is a psychologist, professor, personal/relationship coach, and author of the new book Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows. Dr. Joy is the leading researcher on the psychology/ ideology of meat production and consumption, and she has been interviewed for magazines, books, and radio on her work in this area. She is also the author of Strategic Action for Animals: A Handbook on Strategic Movement Building, Organizing, & Activism for Animal Liberation, and she has spent over a decade training people on how to more effectively relate, communicate, and advocate to others. |
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Stephen R. Kaufman, M.D. is chair of the Christian Vegetarian Association, president of Vegetarian Advocates, and cochair of the Medical Research Modernization Committee. His books include Good News for All Creation (coauthored by Nathan Braun) and Guided by the Faith of Christ: Seeking to Stop Violence and Scapegoating. He is an ophthalmologist specializing in retinal diseases and is an Assistant Profession at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. |
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Roberta Kalechofsky is the author of seven works of fiction, a monograph on George Orwell, poetry and two collections of essays.
As a publisher she has published 40 different titles in poetry, fiction, scholarship, vegetarianism and animal rights. She began Jews for Animal Rights in 1985 and coordinates publications with Micah Publications. Her latest publications are The Poet-Physician and the Healer-Killer: Vivisection and the Emergence of a Medical Technocracy, and The Vegetarian Shabbat Cookbook, co-authored with Robbie Schiff. |
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Shannon
Keith is an animal
liberation attorney in Los
Angeles, California as well as
the President of ARME and Uncaged
Films. Shannon and her organizations
made the award-winning documentary, "Behind
the Mask," which explores
the history of the animal liberation
movement, from its inception
to present day. Shannon has just completed her second documentary about the fur and fashion industries called "Skin Trade." |
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Marti Kheel is a writer and activist in ecofeminism, animal advocacy, and environmental ethics. Her articles have been widely published in journals and anthologies within the U.S. and abroad. Her book, Nature Ethics: An Ecofeminist Perspective has been hailed as a “groundbreaking contribution to the literature and a must read for anyone concerned with the links among environment ethics, animal liberation, and feminist critique of male cultural bias.” She co-founded Feminists for Animal Rights in 1982 and is currently a visiting scholar in the Division of Society and Environment, U.C. Berkeley. |
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Dara Lovitz is an Adjunct Professor of Animal Law at Temple Univ. Beasley School of Law and the Earle Mack School of Law at Drexel University. Lovitz was appointed Special Prosecutor by the Lancaster County District Attorney to prosecute the pivotal PA case, Commonwealth v. Esbenshade, in which the district court determined the criminal liability of an egg factory owner and supervisor. She has written and lectured extensively on the constitutional failures of eco-terror laws and has authored a book titled, "Muzzling a Movement," on the silencing of animal activism as the result of eco-terror laws, money, and politics. |
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Bob Lucius is a career-Marine Corps officer with more than 22 years of active-duty service around the world. In 2008, he was selected as PETA’s Sexiest Vegetarian in the U.S. Marine Corps. Bob is also the founder and Executive Director of the Kairos Coalition, a non-profit organization that aims to bring humane education and youth advocacy training to developing nations in order to accelerate the pace of Humane Nation building. The Kairos Coalition is currently coordinating projects in Vietnam, with the ultimate goal of developing a corps of skilled, impassioned and empowered youth change agents poised to become the vanguard of the animal advocacy movement in Vietnam. |
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Anthony Marr has a physics degree and is the author of "OMNI-SCIENCE and the Human Destiny" (2003) and “Homo Sapiens! SAVE YOUR EARTH!” (2008). A full-time wildlife preservationist since 1995, he is founder of the Global Anti-Hunting Coalition. He founded Heal Our Planet Earth in 1999 and leads HOPE’s Global Emergency Operation on mass extinction due to global warming. A speaker at the Conference since 2004, he is currently on his 7th Compassion for Animals Road Expedition covering 40 states in 7 months.
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George
Matejka, Ph.D., is Associate
Professor and Chair of the
Philosophy Department at
Ursuline
College.
Since
he developed a course entitled Animals
and Ethics in
2004, roughly 175 Ursuline
students have elected to
take this class. He
has published reviews of
two books in the field of
Animals and Ethics, including
a review of Peter Singer’s In
Defense of Animals: The
Second Wave. George
volunteers at Happy Tails
cat sanctuary in
Chesterland
,
Ohio
,
and resides in
Lyndhurst
,
Ohio
, with his two cats
Peanut and Snuggles.
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Dr. Shirley McGreal is the founder and Chairwoman of the International Primate Protection League (IPPL). She began her work on behalf of primates and conservation while she was a resident of Thailand in 1973. She formed IPPL after witnessing the deplorable conditions under which primates were captured, sold and transported. IPPL specializes in fighting the highly organized illegal traffic in endangered primate species such as gorillas, chimpanzees and orangutans. Dr. McGreal has received a number of awards, including the Order of the British Empire in 2008. |
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Keith McHenry is one of the original eight activists that started Food Not Bombs in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1980. After starting a 2nd chapter in San Francisco, he was arrested "for making a political statement" by sharing vegan meals to the hungry spending over 500 nights in jail. He faced 25 to life in prison when he was framed under the CA "three strikes and your out" law. Today he continues to volunteer with the movement he co-founded supporting their work to share free information and vegan meals with the hungry on the streets of over 1,000 cities around the world. He also helps maintain the Food Not Bombs website. |
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Erica
Meier is the Executive
Director of Compassion
Over Killing, a non-profit
animal advocacy organization
based in
Washington
,
D.C.
that focuses on exposing
cruelty to farmed animals
and promoting vegetarian
eating as a way to reduce
animal suffering. COK’s
undercover investigations
inside factory farms have
been featured in various
newspapers, including the New
York Times and the Washington
Post. Before working
at COK, Erica spent four
years as an animal control
officer in D.C., rescuing
sick, injured, and homeless
animals as well as enforcing
animal protection laws. |
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Dawn
Moncrief is
the Conference Director and Executive
Director of FARM
(Farm Animal Rights Movement),
a non-profit, public interest
organization advocating vegan
diets to save animals, protect
the environment, and improve
health. She has
two Masters degrees from The
George Washington University,
one in International Relations
specializing in economic
development, the other specializing
in women-in-development.
Her specialty is the
detrimental effects of animal
agriculture on world hunger,
particularly women in less-developed
countries. |
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Peter
Muller has
been involved in wildlife
protection since 1976. He
has participated in patrolling
posted land against hunters
during hunting season, given
presentations on the deleterious
effects of hunting at various
universities and other groups,
published numerous articles
on this topic, debated and
educated on radio and TV.
Peter is currently President
of LOHV
(League of Humane voters), a PAC (Political
Action Committee) whose mission
is to support candidates
for political office who
promise their support of
animal protective legislation. |
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lauren
Ornelas runs Food
Empowerment Project. She
has been active in the animal
rights movement for over
19 years. After spending
four years as National Campaign
Coordinator for In Defense
of Animals, lauren was asked
by Viva!UK to start and run
Viva!USA in 1999. As
the leader of Viva!USA, she
investigated factory farms
and ran consumer campaigns.
Some of her accomplishments
include persuading Trader
Joe’s to stop selling
all duck meat, Pier 1 to
stop using feathers and
was the spark that got the
CEO of Whole Foods
to become a vegan. |
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Melody Paris produces and hosts Second Opinion Radio, an animal rights talk show, each week on WRFG 89.3 FM Atlanta, a 100,000 watt station. She is former host of AR Now! on People TV in Atlanta and has been involved in the animal rights movement since 1992. Most recently she served as executive chair for Primate Freedom Project.
Melody was instrumental in the establishing the first cat/dog adoption program at the Buckhead Petsmart in Atlanta, Georgia in the 1990's where she continued to do rescue and adoptions for seven years.
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Mark Pearson is Executive Director of Animal Liberation in Australia. His main focus is on farm animals – particularly factory farming for the past 17 years and recently kangaroos. Two recent successes have been in relation to sheep and kangaroos. The phase out of the most invasive mutilation of any animal without analgesia – ‘mulesing’ in sheep and convincing the Russian Federation to ban imports of kangaroo meat by exposing inherent cruelty and hygiene problems. He enjoys opera – even trying to sing some- and stopping live export death ships from entering Australian ports. |
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Will Potter is an award-winning independent journalist who focuses on
how the "War on Terrorism" affects civil liberties. He has closely
followed the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA), the Earth
Liberation Front arrests in "Operation Backfire," and the landmark First
Amendment case of the SHAC 7. Will's reporting on AETA has been
recognized by Project Censored "for outstanding investigative
journalism." He is the author of "Green Is The New Red," forthcoming
from City Lights Books, and is the creator of GreenIsTheNewRed.com. |
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Becky Robinson is president and co-founder of Alley Cat Allies, the nation's only advocacy organization dedicated to the protection and humane treatment of cats. Under Ms. Robinson's leadership, based on years of hands-on investigation and expertise, Alley Cat Allies established the first best-practice standards for Trap-Neuter-Return for feral cats in the U.S. She established three spay and neuter clinics in the Washington, D.C. area. Ms. Robinson and Alley Cat Allies are recognized worldwide for their pioneering work. |
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Nathan
Runkle serves
full-time as the Executive
Director of Mercy
For Animals (MFA), an organization he
founded in 1999. He has helped
organize and execute MFA's
investigations and open rescues
at Ohio's four largest egg
factory farms. Through his
work with MFA, Nathan has
appeared in stories by dozens
of newspapers and radio programs,
as well as on PBS, NBC, CBS,
ABC and FOX affiliates. He
has organized hundreds of
demonstrations & educational
outreach events and frequently
speaks on AR issues
at high schools and colleges. |
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Rae Sikora has been a full-time spokesperson for other species for over 30 years. Rae is co-founder of Plant Peace Daily, Vegfund and the Institute for Humane Education. She leads compassionate living and ethical consumerism programs for diverse audiences ranging from schools and prisons to businesses and universities. |
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Casey Suchan is a co-owner of Open Road Films. With business partner Denis Hennelly, Suchan has directed and produced several documentary films on Hip Hop culture and animal rights. They are currently in production on the SHAC7 documentary with Finngate Pictures and Z-Axis Productions, and launching an online vegan cooking class and lifestyle show with Spork Foods. Through the fall they will be touring with their latest project, BOLD NATIVE, a fiction film on the A.L.F. designed to work in tandem with other activist efforts towards the liberation of animals and against the marginalization & criminalization of their advocates under the AETA. |
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Erika Sullivan, DVM is a veterinarian practicing companion animal medicine in Toronto, Ontario. Erika is a member of many animal welfare organizations, and strives to promote positive health to both domestic and non-domestic animals. She has been featured on Animal Voices radio show, and has written numerous reviews on alternatives to live-animal-use for veterinary surgical training. Erika has also published articles in Veterinary Times magazine on wildlife conservation in Africa with gorillas, and in Thailand with elephants. |
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Tamira Ci Thayne (formerly Tammy Grimes) is founder and CEO of Dogs Deserve Better, an award-winning national nonprofit organization dedicated to ending the chaining and penning of dogs, and bringing Man's Best Friend into the home and family.
She has twice been convicted of breaking the law while checking out calls about chained dogs.
Thayne is author of "Scream Like Banshee: 29 Days of Tips and Tales to Keep your Sanity as a Doggie Foster Parent", and co-editor of "Unchain My Heart: DDB Rescue Stories of Courage, Compassion, and Caring."
Her next book is due out June 2010. |
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Brian Vincent is Communications Director for Big Wildlife, a wildlife protection organization based in the Pacific Northwest. He has done extensive media coordination, outreach, and mobilizing for a range of animal rights and conservation groups. Brian is currently fighting to end: bear hunting in California, aggressive government lethal control programs that target wildlife, and expansive killing of cougars in Oregon, among other campaigns. In his off hours, this year Brian helped found "Stop UBC Animal Research," committed to exposing and ultimately ending research on animals at the University of British Columbia. E-mail: brian@bigwildlife.org; stopUBCanimalresearch@gmail.com
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Michael A. Weber is the campaign coordinator for Farm Animal Rights Movement (FARM) and holds a degree in Environmental Economics and Policies. In addition to helping coordinate thousands of vegan activism events across the country and the world, he gives presentations to high schools, colleges, and workplaces on making the switch to a vegan diet. He also organizes in DC to end the animal exploitation at Huntington Life Sciences and at fur-carrying businesses and to bring about social justice and environmental sustainability. |
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Zoe Weil has been a humane educator for 25 years having taught tens of thousands of people about the interconnected issues of human rights, animal protection, and environmental preservation. She is the co-founder and president of the Institute for Humane Education (IHE) which offers humane education workshops, distance-learning courses, the first M.Ed. and certificate programs in comprehensive humane education in the U.S., and loads of free humane education activities. Zoe is the author of several books including Most Good, Least Harm: A Simple Principle for a Better World and Meaningful Life, The Power and Promise of Humane Education, Above All, Be Kind, and more. Zoe blogs at www.zoeweil.com.
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Eileen Weintraub has been an animal rescuer since childhood. As a practitioner of eastern religions she sought to change the meat eating habits of the Tibetan Buddhist community by writing the groundbreaking article "Life as a Vegetarian Tibetan Buddhist Practitioner". A fascination and passion for making a difference for India's animals resulted in five trips where she chiefly helped the Visakha Society for Protection and Care of Animals (VSPCA) become a leading Indian animal eco-sanctuary and animal rights group. Recently she founded Help Animals India to raise funds to lessen the suffering for India's animals. |
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Odette
Wilkens is Executive
Director of the Equal
Justice Alliance, which is seeking
legislative and judicial remedies
to repeal or amend AETA. She
is also a member of the Animal
Law Committee of the American
Bar Association and a member
of the Committee of Legal Issues
Pertaining to Animals of the
New York City Bar Association.
As a corporate attorney, Odette
was Assistant General Counsel
for a major international recruiting
firm. She also holds a masters
degree in business administration
in finance from New York University. |
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Peter
Young is the creator of Voice of the Voiceless, documenting the direct action animal liberation movement. He is a former political prisoner sentenced to a two year prison term in 2005 for conspiring to release thousands of mink from fur farms. After 7 years wanted by the FBI and a 24 month federal prison sentence, this veteran activist is voice of strength through sacrifice in the struggle for animal liberation. Young brings with him an arresting story, speaking on the subjects of political repression, animal liberation, direct action, and more. |
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