William “Bill” Crain is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at The City College of New York. In 2008, he and his wife Ellen founded Safe Haven Farm Sanctuary in Poughquag, NY. The sanctuary provides a lifelong home to farmed animals rescued from slaughter and abandonment. Bill is the author of a major textbook in developmental psychology and other books and articles. In 2018, he received a PETA Hero to Animals Award for his efforts to protect black bears.
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Sherry F. Colb was Professor of Law and Charles Evans Hughes Scholar at Cornell University Law School, where she taught courses in animal rights, evidence, and criminal procedure. She was a graduate of Columbia College and Harvard Law School, and a former law clerk to the late Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun. Colb lived in Ithaca, New York, with her husband, two daughters, and two mixed-breed dogs.
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Animal rights, peace, and environmental activist since the 70’s, Judy Carman, is the author of award-winning Peace to All Beings: Veggie Soup for the Chicken’s Soul; and co-author with Tina Volpe of The Missing Peace. She is co-founder with Will and Madeleine Tuttle of Circle of Compassion and the Prayer Circle for Animals Facebook page. She co-founded Animal Outreach of Kansas, which brought an end to animal circuses in Douglas County. She founded the Animals’ Peace Prayer Flag Project; co-founded, with Lisa Levinson, the Interfaith Vegan Coalition; assists Vegan Spirituality with events and is a member of the Advisory Council of Sustainable Activism, a project of In Defense of Animals. She received the Henry Spira Grassroots Animal Activist Award in 2014. Her website is www.peacetoallbeings.com.
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Leonardo Caffo is a theoretical philosopher and associate fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. He directed and founded the magazines Animal Studies and the Italian Journal of Analytic Philosophy Junior. With Maurizio Ferraris he edited Philosophy Globalized (Mimesis International, 2013). He is the author of The Possibility of Change: Human Actions and Moral Freedom (Mimesis, 2012) and The Pig Does Not Make the Revolution (Sonda, 2013). Most recently, he authored Only for Them: A Manifesto for Animality through Philosophy and Politics (Mimesis, 2015).
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