Patti Breitman is an animal and health advocate and an expert public speaker. She is a former food columnist for VegNews magazine and writes an occasional blog on VegSource.com. Patti teaches cooking classes throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, where she lives.
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Steven Best, Ph.D. is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Texas, El Paso, and has published numerous books and articles on philosophy, cultural criticism, social theory, and animal rights. Steven Best was named one of the “25 Most Fascinating Vegetarians” by VegNews magazine in its July+August 2007 issue. His website is drstevebest.org.
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Matt Ball, along with Jack Norris, co-founded Vegan Outreach in 1993. Before working full-time as the Executive Director of Vegan Outreach, he was a Department of Energy Global Change Fellow, and earned degrees in the Department of Forest Ecology at the University of Illinois, and the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. Vegan Outreach activists have distributed millions of detailed animal advocacy booklets around the world, with distribution growing every year. Along with Mr. Norris, Matt was elected into the Animal Rights Hall of Fame in 2005.
Matt is currently co-founder and President of One Step for Animals and a member of the Communications Team at The Good Food Institute (GFI). His website is animaladvocacybook.com/bios.html.
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Brooks Brown graduated from Columbine High School in 1999; No Easy Answers was his first book. Brooks worked and consulted on Michael Moore’s Academy Award-winning documentary Bowling for Columbine. He lives in Los Angeles, California.
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Ryan Bethencourt is the co-founder of Wild Earth, a dog food company, and founder and former program director of the biotech incubator IndieBio.
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