Advocate Origin Stories

Read Time: 2.5 hours, uninterrupted.  Too long for anyone to read in full.  But selective skimming will  cut your read time to just under 2 hours. As a Kid The…

One year in what seems like another life, I temporarily relocated to the UK for a work assignment involving an acquisition in Sheffield. It was a small town surrounded by farm…

Dr. Marilyn Kroplick’s passion for animal rights was ignited in 2002 after purchasing a puppy from a pet store who became terribly sick. Her fight for justice led her to…

In early 1983, veterinarian Dr. Elliot Katz was contacted by animal activists and discovered scandalous conditions inside UC Berkeley’s animal laboratories – an event that changed animal protection history. Living…

I grew up around animals. My aunt lived next to a field of dairy cows and I just loved them. I fed them grass over the fence and was entranced by…

In August 2020, I sat numb in a Main Street Vegan Academy class, secretly hoping that I’d get by without much participation when Jasmin Singer declared she was going to…

During the production of Gods in Shackles film, Sangita was deeply saddened by the plight of Kerala’s festival elephants. She realized that there was a significant lack of awareness regarding…

I never know where to “start the story” but you could say it was in the late 70s when my parents fell in love being the only two people they knew…

In short, I’ve always been drawn to helping animals. My parents would tell me when I was little, when visiting friends or family, I would immediately snuggle up with their…

I always wanted to visit Africa because I love animals and, typically therefore, wanted to see lions, elephants, and giraffes in the wild. In an unplanned moment (much to my…

When I was about 7 or 8 years old, I remember walking down the hallway at elementary school on the way to class one morning and coming across a large…

From the moment I became self-aware, I discovered I have two great loves which could sustain me as if water or food: animals and music. Unfortunately, I was socialized to…