Carol Glasser
Carol Glasser is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. Her current research focuses on the animal rights movements, examining how social movement organizations and the state interact, intra-organizational cohesion in the animal rights movement over the past 25 years and the role of illegal direct action in the animal rights movement.
vegina.wordpress.com

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Kali Grech
Kali S. Grech knew her calling, to be a voice for animals at a young age. She initially began in the trenches, attending protests and advocating at the grass roots level. She quickly learned it was an uphill battle, and that she would need more power in order for her voice to be heard, and ultimately to effect change. She decided at the age of 10 that she would become an attorney, so that she would have some means of ensuring animals their rights.

Kali graduated summa cum laude from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, in 2001, and earned her JD from the University of San Francisco, School of Law. Kali now has her own practice at Pier 5 Law Offices, a community of sole practitioners who share her passion for justice. While she currently specializes in medical marijuana law, she welcomes any chance to use her skills in the protection of animal rights. Currently, Kali is defending Maryam Khajavi, one of the AETA 4 defendants. She is working on the case pro bono with two other attorneys at Pier 5, Tony Serra and Omar Figueroa. She hopes ultimately to preserve the First Amendment rights of compassionate humans who speak out against injustice to animals.
pier5law.com/kali-grech.html

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Denis Henry Hennelly
Denis Henry Hennelly is a filmmaker and co-owner of Open Road Films. Open Road Films' current project BOLD NATIVE tells the story of an animal liberator wanted for domestic terrorism. Denis has also produced and/or directed a series of documentaries on Hip Hop, including ROCK THE BELLS and BEEF.

www.boldnative.com.
openroadfilms.net

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Lorri Houston
Lorri Houston is considered the "pioneer" of the farmed animal sanctuary movement. In 1986, she opened the country's first shelter for farmed animals as co-founder of Farm Sanctuary, at a time when rescuing and protecting farmed animals was unheard of. Over the years, Lorri has directly saved thousands of animals from the cruelties of factory farming, and brought national attention to the plight of animals used for "food production."

In 2005, Lorri Houston founded the nonprofit organization, Animal Acres, the Los Angeles Farmed Animal Sanctuary and Compassionate Living Center. In less than five years, Animal Acres has grown into one of southern California's premier animal protection organizations, rescuing hundreds of farmed animals and educating millions of people about the plight of animals used for "food production" with features on the sanctuary's work in the Los Angeles Times, and the national television series, "30 Days" and PBS Visiting with Huell Howser.
animalacres.org/about.html

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John Johnson (Edge with the Dreads)
Music can be so much more than entertainment. For many people it's an indicator of their social identity, and for some, a call to action. John Johnson (Edge with the Dreads) has spent over 20 years writing, recording, and performing his music around the United States with a message and intent to inspire those willing to listen. Edge with the Dreads (John Johnson) has been vegan since 1988 and his love and respect for all life fuels his music for animal liberation.
xedgex.com

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Shannon Keith
Shannon Keith is an animal rights attorney, documentary filmmaker and president of the non-profit organization, ARME. Her first film, Behind the Mask, garnered worldwide notoriety, multiple awards, and brought the animal liberation message to mainstream media. Her second film, to be released this month, is about the fur and fashion industries with an emphasis on consumer fraud. Shannon represents animal rights activists and individuals whose companion animals are harmed. Watch the trailer for Skin Trade here

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Greg Kelly
Greg Kelly - a renown global grassroots animal rights activist and eco-feminist - has been to demos in almost a dozen countries as well as all over the United States. He was first known as the co-founder of Win Animal Rights in NYC in 2004 and helped bring HLS to it's knees when they were kicked off the NYSE making history on Wall St. Since then he has helped many activist groups everywhere and strives towards total liberation. He is now proudly the co-founder of Band Of Mercy - Los Angeles.

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Marti Kheel
Marti Kheel is a prominent ecofeminist scholar and activist in the areas of animal advocacy, vegan studies, and environmental ethics. She is the author of numerous articles that have been published and reprinted in journals and anthologies in the United States and abroad. Her 2008 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 between environmental ethics, animal liberation, and feminist critique of male cultural bias." In 1982, she co-founded the influential organization Feminists for Animal Rights; FAR's profound insights into the link between the oppression of women and other-than-human animals continues to inspire activists and scholars. She holds a doctorate from the Graduate Theological Union and is currently a visiting scholar in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management (ESPM), University of California, Berkeley.
martikheel.com

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Dina Kourda
Dina Kourda is the Director of Fundraising and Events for Orange County People for Animals. Her past experience in volunteerism, aside from animal rights, includes serving as treasurer and vice president for the Women's Environmental Council of Orange County. She also donates her time by serving on the scholarship board for the Association of Engineering Geologists. Dina holds a B.S. in Engineering Geology from UCLA and works as a professional engineering geologist in the environmental field as a regulator in southern California. She oversees investigation and remediation of contaminated soil and groundwater.
ocpausa.org/about.htm

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Bob Linden
Bob Linden is a New York City native and graduate of Queens College of the City University of New York who has led a double life - as a professional broadcaster, and animal rights advocate. He was named Program Director of the Week by Billboard Magazine and received Addy Awards for copywriting, and TV spot and billboard campaigns. Bob's gypsy radio life includes starting WQCD-CD 101in New York, programming LOVE 94 (he didn't name it) in Miami, and achieving highest ratings ever at 98.1 KIFM in San Diego. He has also served as Program Director of radio stations in Omaha, San Antonio, Las Vegas, and Atlanta. Bob is an animal lover who has been joyously vegan for 26 years.
goveganradio.com

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Anthony Marr
Anthony Marr has a degree in physics, and has worked as a field geophysicist and an environmental technologist. He was born in China, and now lives in Vancouver, BC, Canada. In addition, Anthony travels world-wide 6 months every year. Anthony is the founder of Heal Our Planet Earth (HOPE - 1999) and is the author of Omni-science and the Human Destiny (2003), and Homo Sapiens! Save Your Earth . In late 2009 he and six other activists founded the Global Anti-Hunting Coalition, of which he is president.
HOPE-CARE.org.

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Jason Miller
Jason Miller is a tenacious vegan abolitionist and animal rights activist who lives in Kansas. He has a boundless passion for animal liberation and anti-capitalism. Addicted to reading and learning, he is mostly an autodidact, but he studied liberal arts and philosophy at the University of Missouri Kansas City . In early 2005, he founded the widely read radical blog, Thomas Paine's Corner . Jason is an accomplished, prolific essayist and his writings on social and political issues have appeared on hundreds of alternative media websites over the last few years. He is a press officer for the North American Animal Liberation Press Office , a founding member and regional director of the Global Anti-Hunting Coalition , and the founder of Bite Club of KC , a grassroots animal rights activist group which he started in Kansas City in 2009 and through which he and his allies give animal exploiters some serious hell.
thomaspainescorner.wordpress.com

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Mardhavi Rodrigo
Percussionist, film composer, songwriter, producer, teacher (public school band/orchestra/choir), DJ, Bharata Natyam dancer, and bellydancer.

She earned her BFA in Multi-focus Percussion Performance from Calarts, MM in Commercial Music Composition and teaching credential from CSULA. She's currently in training as a Mac Genius and yogini.

Other than hanging out with her vegan cats and dogs, her other left-wing pastimes include activism in feminism, LGBT and racism issues, environmentalism, and whatever else her
straight-edge spontaneity decides.

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Matt Rossell
Matt Rossell has worked undercover for the animals and has been inside the belly of every beastly animal industry; documenting and exposing abuse behind the scenes inside research labs, factory farms, circuses, fur farms and even worked a day in an Omaha slaughterhouse. He is now the NW Director of In Defense of Animals, living and working in Portland, Oregon with his family of rescued dogs, wife, daughter, chickens and bunnies.
IDAusa.org

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Moses Seenarine
Moses Seenarine is father of a four-year old son and an ethical vegan for 25 years. He has maintained a boycott of slaughter-kitchens by eating only in vegetarian restaurants and households. Moses attended Columbia University and studied Education at Queens College of the City University of New York. Moses has worked at Hunter College, City University of New York as a Asst. Prof., and also taught at Teachers College, Columbia University, Suffolk Community College, State University of New York, and at several inner-city high schools in Los Angeles. Moses is currently working on a documentary focused on radical ecofeminists.
MosesSite.com

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Stewart Solomon
Stewart Solomon is a husband, a father of three children-ages 6, 13, and 15, a physics and chemistry teacher, and an animal activist. He has been a vegetarian for 22 years and a vegan for 12 years. In 2005, he became a member of Vegan Outreach and has now passed out over 190,000 leaflets to college students on campuses in Southern California as far south as San Diego and as far north as Santa Barbara. To date, he has handed out more leaflets on college campuses than any other Vegan Outreach volunteer.

His drive comes from his passion to help animals. In recent years, he has come to view our society in the context of a dysfunctional family with a gigantic dirty little secret. While just about everyone understands that animals must die in order to make their food, most believe that the animals are treated humanely, at least to some degree. They assume that laws in place to prevent cruelty are enforced. Even in their worst nightmare, they would never imagine that billions of ears, teeth, tails, testicles, and beaks are amputated without any anesthesia. They would never even dream that animals would be given medicines that not only make them grow quickly, but also break their bones, cause internal bleeding, and severe debilitating illnesses which these animals must bear every waking moment of their lives. Mr. Solomon's passion is to expose these atrocities so that people can make informed decisions about what they eat. He firmly believes that if we simply discuss these issues openly, then each and every year 50 billion animals will be spared an existence that can only be described as torture.
veganoutreach.org/enewsletter/stewart.html