Tomi Makanjuola is an award-winning food blogger and chef. She runs The Vegan Nigerian, a platform dedicated to making Nigerian cuisine and the vegan lifestyle accessible to members of her community and beyond. Tomi is passionate about sharing her knowledge through workshops, cookbooks, and online content. She is the author of Vegan Nigerian Kitchen.
Laura Carney is a writer and magazine and book copy editor in New York. She's been published by the Washington Post, the Associated Press, The Hill, Runner's World, Good Housekeeping, Upworthy, The Fix, and other places, and has written a book about finishing the bucket list of her late father, who was killed by a distracted driver.
Rebecca Gade Sawicki lives in Metro Detroit and is the creator of the vegan travel blog and consulting company Veggies Abroad. Veggies Abroad was born from Rebecca's love of travel, and the question she gets asked after every trip, "What in the world did you eat?"
Jason Bolalek is the founder of Destination Liberation, a Vermont-based animal rescue organization, dedicated to rescuing male calves from dairy farms (who are seen as mere waste products in the dairy industry) and finding them forever homes
Kerstin Brueller is a vegan animal rights and liberation activist focusing on online activism. She is also a writer, content creator, illustrator, and graphic designer from Vienna, Austria. Web kerstinbrueller.com Instagram @kerstinbrueller
Chris Fuller-Wigg is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Austin Farm Sanctuary. He is also the VP of Services for Motiv, a SaaS implementation company. Over the last 5 years, in addition to working at Motiv and building a life with his wife Angela, Chris has worked to build Austin Farm Sanctuary from a 1/2 acre micro-sanctuary to the blossoming non-profit it is today.
Olivia DiNardo is the founder of Sowa Goat Sanctuary, a nonprofit located in Harvard, MA that provides lifelong holistic care to abused, neglected, orphaned, and slaughter-bound goats in need of a safe haven. sowagoatsanctuary.com
Rachael Brown earned a plant-based nutrition certification and food and sustainability certification from the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies and eCornell. After being diagnosed with high cholesterol in her late 20s, she discovered The China Study and transitioned her family to the whole-food, plant-based, no-oil (WFPBNO) lifestyle, and her cholesterol immediately dropped 50 points. She has been an adjunct professor in nutrition and wellness, a certified yoga and Pilates instructo...
Cyd Notter is a graduate of the Center for Nutrition Studies, a certified instructor for The Starch Solution and other dietary courses, a past newspaper columnist, and the author of the award-winning book The Plan A Diet: Combining Whole Food, Plant-Based Nutrition with the Timeless Wisdom of Scripture. Cyd offers personal nutrition coaching and speaks at various Veg Fests and local groups. Connect with her at cydnotter.com.
Damien Clarkson is the Co-Founder of THE PACK, a food technology startup making healthy and nutritious plant-based dog food. He previously Co-Founded Vevolution a leading technology platform for the plant-based business community where he is still a board member.
Britt is a fine art animal photographer and animal rights advocate from Connecticut. In 2016, she became involved in animal rights activism and volunteering at farm animal sanctuaries. Through her volunteer experiences, she was given the opportunity to photograph some of the sanctuary animals. It was then that she found her true passion in photography. Now, she photographs both rescued animals and wildlife, with a mission to raise awareness for the ways in which humans have a negative impact on ...
Ray is an award-winning author of YA Fantasy and Climate Fiction from Essex in England. As an author of Climate Fiction, Ray's books are published on recycled paper where possible and she plants 1 tree per book sale via Ecologi. It is Ray's dream to one day open The Peridot Animal Sanctuary and Wildlife Reserve in England and that dream inspired Ray to close her business of 15 years to pursue a writing career. When Ray isn't writing, she is happiest spending time with her children, partner, fami...
Chris Huriwai is the co-producer of MILKED, which is a feature documentary that exposes the whitewash of New Zealand's multi-billion-dollar dairy industry. He is also a Māori vegan advocate and extreme sportsman. He has a history of working in community health, working for 7 years teaching physical education and mentoring young people from primary to high schools. He’s a back-to-back 3-time world champion for street unicyclist and has recently moved home after working for an organization that as...
Shauna is a licensed veterinary technician with a background in wildlife rehabilitation, farm animal nursing care, and a love of nature. She worked at a mixed-animal veterinary hospital shortly after earning her degree in veterinary technical science in 1994. She went on to earn specialty certification in animal dentistry and pursued an interest in anesthesia and surgical procedures. In her direct work with farmed animals, she came to understand each of them as unique and intelligent beings, whi...
Kelly is the Co-Founder and former Executive Director of Barn Sanctuary. She had over 7 years of experience in marketing and communication for startups and nonprofit organizations before transitioning to executive leadership. She is a passionate advocate for nonprofit work and specifically animal rights, environmental conservation, and social justice.
Christopher Soul Eubanks is a climate, human, and animal rights activist that was raised in Atlanta, Ga. He has dedicated himself to doing advocacy work that combats all forms of injustice. After learning the horrors of animal exploitation, Christopher became vegan, began doing community organizing, and has helped co-organize Atlanta's first-ever animal rights march. Christopher plans to use education, public speaking, and creativity as tools to advocate for the climate, a vegan lifestyle, and t...
Cat Besch is the Founder and Director of Vietnam Animal Aid and Rescue-US in Hoi An, Vietnam since 2013. She is an outspoken vegan rescuer and pig mother who is obsessed with global food security and building a world without animal agriculture and fishing.
Margaux Khoury is a founder of vegan businesses, a corporate advisor for ethical startups, and a speaker on animal rights, animal agriculture, environmental issues, and ethics.
The Content Doctor Sandra Nomoto is a content writer and editor for cruelty-free businesses. She previously ran Conscious Public Relations for over a decade. In 2019, she authored The Only Public Relations Guide You'll Ever Need and her new book, Vegan Marketing Success Stories is out now. She enjoys blogging about content marketing, book publishing, travel, and vegan food at SandraNomoto.com.
Holly Skodis is the founder of Yoga is Vegan a project and podcast dedicated to helping Yogis embrace Veganism. Holly has been featured on Jane Unchained's Lunch Break Live, Vegan Health & Fitness Magazine, and Angelika Buettners, "I AM", a Quest to Empower Women, and Portray Ageless Beauty Coffee Table Book.
In 2001, after turning down an offer to lead a new charter high school, Kathy Stevens founded Catskill Animal Sanctuary, where her love of teaching, her belief that education has the power to transform, and her love of animals come together. One of the worlds leading sanctuaries for farmed animals, CAS has saved more than 5,000 non-human individuals through direct rescue and exponentially more through programming that encourages humans to adopt veganism. casanctuary.org opensanctuary.org...
Todd is the founder of Arthur's Acre Animal Sanctuary. After finding a 3 ½-month-old piglet at a former small-scale "farm to table" type facility he was looking at in order to turn it into a sanctuary, Todd demanded to have the pig handed over to him. That pig he named Arthur. Arthur, who was the last pig to be threatened with death at that place, was the first pig to receive sanctuary there. The place where Arthur was meant to die young and afraid will be the place where he learns to live, to l...
Monica Aggarwal, MD, is an adjunct Associate Professor in the University of Florida's Division of Cardiovascular Medicine where she conducts research on the impact of nutrition on chronic illness. She also serves as the Chief Medical officer of the not-for-profit, 4Roots Farm which is looking at how to improve food quality to improve human health. She received her medical degree from Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine and subsequently went on to complete a residency in internal ...
Dr. Melanie Worley is an Emergency Medicine physician and soon-to-be Sports Medicine fellow, 3-time Boston marathoner with a 2:56 personal best in the marathon, and Ironman 70.3 World Championship Qualifier. She is passionate about plant-based diets for both athletic performance and disease prevention. She attended undergraduate at Wake Forest University, where she graduated summa cum laude with a Health and Exercise Science major with honors and was a member of Phi Betta Kappa. She then went on...
Graham and Annette Henry are both trained as whole food plant-based educators. The husband and wife teammate are using their knowledge and passion to help others transition successfully to a more plant-based diet as a route to improved health.
Andrew Alexander is the producer of Creating a Vegan World documentary where he interviewed 50 leading experts in the vegan, animal rights, and plant-based health movements to discover what it takes to change the world.
Alli Chambers is the co-founder and president of The Zend: Final Farm & Sanctuary. Passion has always fueled her path and her choices in life. Adopting a vegan lifestyle catapulted her into a completely different way of seeing the world around us and how connected we all are. To date, it's her favorite choice she has ever made and it's what started her on the path to The Zend. The Zend is a "safe place for gentle souls" and it's her actual dream come true.
Sean O'Callaghan is a vegan journalist, activist, community organizer, marketer, and travel enthusiast who loves supporting people on their vegan journeys. Originally from Australia, Sean currently lives in London, UK. fatgayvegan.com veganculinarycruises.com: USA National Parks Vegan Adventure May 15-20, 2022 islaurbana.org : Isla Urbana is a project dedicated to contributing to water sustainability in Mexico through rainwater harvesting....
Aksana is the founder of PiQi, a vegan fermented drinks startup, that's based in the UK. She's a long-time vegan and a fermentation enthusiast. Along with her partner Nick, they are on a mission to help people look after their gut health on a vegan diet.
Robbie Balenger is a plant-based ultra-endurance athlete obsessed with finding sustainable motion through space and time. This obsession leads Robbie to seek out mammoth athletic projects that span weeks and months. By exploring recovery techniques and honing diet choices, Robbie is investigating how he can keep going forever.
