EVEN Exclusive Interviews

Patrick McDonnell

Award-winning Cartoonist, Author, and Animal Activist

Patrick McDonnell is a cartoonist, author, and playwright. He is the creator of the daily comic strip MUTTS, syndicated since 1994, which appears in more than 700 newspapers across 20 countries. McDonnell has won numerous awards for both his artistry and for his activism in animal welfare. Peanuts creator, Charles Schulz, called MUTTS "one of the best comic strips of all time." >> READ MORE

Ellie Laks

Founder, Author, Ted-X Speaker

Ellie Laks founded The Gentle Barn in 1999. She invented her own "gentle healing method" that allows old, sick, injured and terrified animals to fully recover using a combination of Western medicine, holistic modalities, holding therapy and lots of love. Ellie is an expert in rehabilitating orphaned and sick animals....In her work at The Gentle Barn, she has hosted hundreds of thousands of visitors and developed programs for at-risk... >>MORE

Christina Pirello, MFN

Chef, Educator, Activist, Author

Christina Pirello, MFN, is one of America's preeminent authorities on healthy living with natural and whole foods at its core....She's made it her purpose in life to show the world that everyone can look their best, and feel great, too, by understanding the impact of food on day to day wellness....Christina studied and became an expert in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda, acupuncture, macrobiotics and earned a Masters Degree in Food Science and Nutrition.... >>READ MORE

Michael A. Klaper, M.D.

Physician, Speaker, Educator

Michael A. Klaper, M.D. is a graduate of the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago. He received postgraduate training in internal medicine, surgery, orthopedics and anesthesiology at the University of British Columbia Hospitals in Vancouver and obstetrics at the University of California at San Francisco. Dr. Klaper has practiced acute care medicine in Hawaii, Canada, California, Florida and New Zealand.

Far more fulfilling to him is his current practice, focusing on health-promoting food and lifestyle choices to help people stay out of hospitals and off of operating tables. >> MORE

Fiona Oakes

Athlete, Activist, Altruist

Fiona Oakes is an Elite Marathoner and quadruple World Record Holder in distance running events, being the fastest woman to run a Marathon on all 7 Continents and the North Pole. Vegan since the age of 6, she founded an animal refuge in the UK - Towerhill Stables Animal Sanctuary - 22 years ago. She currently cares for over 450 rescued animals.
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Dr. Joanne Kong

Speaker, Author, Animal and Environmental Advocate

Dr. Joanne Kong has been praised as one of the most compelling advocates for plant-based nutrition today, centered ethically in raising awareness that greater compassion for animals and our planet is vitally necessary for transformative growth and positive world change. >>MORE

Marc Bekoff

Author, Professor, and Long-Time Animal Rights Advocate

Marc Bekoff is Professor Emeritus of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a Former Guggenheim Fellow. In 2000, he was awarded the Exemplar Award from the Animal Behavior Society for major long-term contributions to the field of animal behavior. He has published more than 1,000 scientific and popular essays, three encyclopedias, and 30 books >>MORE

Jim Mason

Author, Attorney, Animal Rights Activist, Environmentalist

Jim Mason is an author and attorney. His latest book, The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter (co-authored with Peter Singer), explores the ethical questions involved in modern food systems.
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Neal Barnard, MD

President, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM)

As president of the Physicians Committee, Neal Barnard, MD, leads programs advocating for preventive medicine, good nutrition, and higher ethical standards in research. Dr. Barnard has authored more than 80 scientific publications and 20 books for medical and lay readers. He has hosted four PBS television programs on nutrition and health, and is the editor in chief of the Nutrition Guide for Clinicians, a textbook made available to all U.S. medical students.
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Janice Stanger, PhD

Author, Speaker, Educator, Consultant

A nutrition expert whose mission is to teach people to thrive on a whole-foods, plant-based diet, Janice Stanger, PhD, is the author of The Perfect Formula Diet and is a frequent conference presenter, radio show guest, and teacher of several courses on nutrition and health. Shredding ridiculous nutrition myths is Janice's specialty. >> MORE

Dale Lugenbehl

Educator, Author, Builder

Sandy Aldridge

Environmental Activist, Gardener

Dale and Sandy built their own home and veganically grow most of their food. Additionally they continue to experiment with food preservation that uses as little energy as possible—including an above-ground root cellar, storage of certain crops in the soil, and sun drying. They make extensive use of solar, geothermal, and gravity energy, as well as rainwater catchment systems for garden and orchard irrigation at their Ahimsa Acres homestead outside of Cottage Grove, Oregon. >>MORE

Chef Fran Costigan

Pastry Chef, Culinary Educator, Cookbook Author

Chef Fran Costigan is internationally renowned as the authority on vegan desserts. Her unapologetically luscious treats lack nothing—except dairy, eggs, white sugar, and cholesterol. Professionally trained, Fran worked in both traditional and vegan pastry kitchens before moving into teaching over 20 years ago. Her lively classes include the Costigan Vegan Baking Boot Camp Intensive®. Fran's latest book, Vegan Chocolate Dessert: Unapologetically Luscious and Decadent Dairy-Free Desserts, has been translated into three languages, and >>MORE

Dr. Alan Goldhamer

Clinical Fasting Researcher

For over 30 years Dr. Alan Goldhamer has been the director of the TrueNorth Health Center and the TrueNorth Health Foundation in Santa Rosa, CA.

TrueNorth Health Center is an integrative medical facility whose staff includes a dozen clinicians representing medicine, osteopathy, naturopathy, chiropractic and psychology. >>MORE

Gary Kowalski

Author, Activist, Theologian

Reverend Gary Kowalski is the author of books on spirituality, animals, history and science including Goodbye Friend: Healing Wisdom for Anyone Who Has Ever Lost a Pet and The Souls of Animals, volumes that have been translated into Chinese, Hungarian, Korean, Japanese, Spanish, German and French. A graduate of Harvard College and the Harvard Divinity School...   >>MORE

lauren Ornelas

Founder & Executive Director
Food Empowerment Project

lauren Ornelas is the Founder and Executive Director of Food Empowerment Project (F.E.P.), a vegan food justice nonprofit seeking to create a more just world by helping consumers recognize the power of their food choices. F.E.P. works in solidarity with farm workers, advocates for chocolate not sourced from the worst forms of child labor, and focuses on access to healthy foods in communities of color and low-income communities. >>MORE

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, PhD

Author, Educator, Researcher, Animal Rights Activist

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson has a Ph.D. in Sanskrit from Harvard University. He was Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Toronto. Trained as a Freudian analyst and graduating as a full member of the International Psycho-Analytical Association, he became Project Director of the Sigmund Freud Archives in 1980.

Given access to Freud's papers in London and the Library of Congress, his research led him to publish a series of books critical of Freud, psychoanalysis, psychiatry and therapy.

Skeptical that humans could be understood (at least by psychologists) Masson turned to animals. In 1995 he published When Elephants Weep, an international best seller, followed by the equally popular Dogs Never Lie About Love. >>MORE

Brenda Davis, RD

Registered Dietitian, Author, Speaker,
Nutritional Consultant

Brenda Davis, Registered Dietitian, is a leader in her field and an internationally-acclaimed speaker. She has worked as a public health nutritionist, clinical nutrition specialist, nutrition consultant and academic nutrition instructor. Brenda is the lead dietitian in a diabetes research project in Majuro, Marshall Islands. She is a featured speaker at nutrition, medical and health conferences throughout the world. Brenda is co-author of nine award-winning, best-selling books >>MORE

Gary Yourofsky

Educator, Liberator

Gary Yourofsky is a vegan animal liberation activist, national lecturer on animal rights and veganism, and founder of Animals Deserve Absolute Protection Today and Tomorrow, an ethical vegan non-profit organization. ADAPTT believes that all animals have an inherent right to be free and live completely unfettered by human dominance.

Gary has given 2,660 lectures to more than 60,000 people at 186 schools in 30 states and his inspirational actions have been covered by every newspaper, radio outlet, and TV station in his native Detroit, and many others across the US, and around the world. >>MORE

Laura Moretti

Founder/President,
Animals Voice

From the age of 10, Laura Moretti has been active on behalf of animals in every way possible — from an undercover agent for the New Jersey SPCA, to a lobbyist for animal protective legislation in every state she has ever lived in. From hands-on rescue of wild horses to magazine and web site publishing. And serving on the board or advisory boards of various organizations... >> MORE

John Robbins

Author, Advocate, Spokesperson for a Sane,
Ethical and Sustainable Future

John Robbins is the author of nine bestsellers that have collectively sold more than 3 million copies and have been translated into 26 languages. His books include The Food Revolution, and the classic, Diet for a New America. He is Co-Founder, along with his son, Ocean, of the 200,000-member Food Revolution Network. >> MORE

Robert Grillo

Founder and Director,
Free from Harm

Robert Grillo is the founder and director of Free from Harm, a 501(c)(3) non-profit that promotes farmed animal rescue, education and advocacy. Free from Harm strives to be a leader in online activism by building a strong online community and publishing content that empowers and informs activists as well as institutions and the general public. >> MORE

Dawn Moncrief

Founding Director, A Well-Fed World,
Food Justice and Animal Advocate

Dawn Moncrief draws attention to the negative consequences of animal agriculture on climate change; as well as the ethical and environmental deceptiveness in "gifting" animals for food in poor countries and "humane" meat marketing, more generally. >> MORE

Dr. Richard Oppenlander

Researcher, Author, Consultant, Lecturer

Dr. Oppenlander is a much sought after lecturer on the topic of food choice and how it relates to sustainability, all within the framework of fresh perspectives and critical insights. >> MORE

Priscilla Feral

President, Friends of Animals

Priscilla Feral has presided over Friends of Animals for 27 years, as it charts the path that brings critical habitat, environmental, and animal rights issues into the animal advocacy sphere. >> MORE

Victoria Moran

Author of Main Street Vegan and Director of Main Street Vegan Academy

Victoria Moran (www.mainstreetvegan.net) is the prolific author of eleven books, including her latest, Main Street Vegan: Everything You Need to Know to Eat Healthfully and Live Compassionately in the Real World, which VegNews calls "the vegan Bible, New Testament," and of which President Bill Clinton writes: "I'm delighted that you're helping to make the vegan lifestyle more accessible and achievable for as many people as possible."  >> MORE

Brian P. McCarthy

Vegan Cookbook Author, Cooking Instructor, Chef

Chef Brian McCarthy grew up in Portland, Oregon, graduating from David Douglas with a focus on food service. He then completed a two-year culinary school program through Clark College in Vancouver, WA. In 1995 he turned to a vegan diet and began to explore the world of vegan cooking as a chef. >> MORE

Freya Dinshah

President, American Vegan Society

Freya Dinshah is president of the American Vegan Society and edits its magazine American Vegan. Freya's late husband, H. Jay Dinshah, founded the American Vegan Society in 1960 and taught Ahimsa as the principle of vegan living. Freya grew up in England in a vegetarian family. She became vegan as a teen and >> MORE

Krissi Vandenberg

Executive Director, Vegan Action

Krissi Vandenberg has been Executive Director of Vegan Action since 1998 after starting out as a volunteer when the organization was still in Berkeley, California. When she moved back to the East Coast, she brought the organization with her where she currently lives in Richmond, Virginia. While serving for Vegan Action >> MORE

Howard Lyman

Animal Welfare Activist, Author, Mad Cowboy

Howard F. Lyman is a 4th generation family farmer (and vegan) from Montana. After 20 years of operating a feed lot, he sold his ranch and started working for farmers in financial trouble. >> MORE

Ruth Heidrich, Ph.D.

Vegan Ironman Triathlete

Ruth Heidrich, Ph.D. is the winner of 1,000 trophies including 8 Gold Medals in the Senior Olympics, 67 marathons including Boston, New York & Moscow, The Great Wall of China and 3 World Fitness Records at the famed Cooper Clinic in Dallas, TX. Dr. Ruth was named One of the Ten Fittest Women in North America and was nominated by PETA as Sexiest Vegan Alive. She is a breast cancer survivor, her story told in Forks Over Knives. Dr. Heidrich is author of A Race for Life, The CHEF Cook/Rawbook, and Senior Fitness. >> MORE

Dan Piraro

Cartoonist, Comic, Painter, Ethical Vegan

Award-winning cartoonist, fine artist, and stand-up comedian, Dan Piraro is best known for his daily syndicated newspaper cartoon, Bizarro. Appearing in over 300 newspapers and on six continents, Bizarro has won an unprecedented three consecutive "Best Cartoon Panel" awards from the National Cartoonists Society and in 2011 won their highest honor, "Cartoonist of the Year." >> MORE

Will Tuttle, PhD

Educator, Author, Musician, Spiritual Activist

Dr. Will Tuttle has lectured and performed widely throughout North America and Europe presenting over 150 lectures and workshops in the past 16 years. In 2005, Will published his ground-breaking book, The World Peace Diet, the first book to give the big picture of the consequences of eating animal-sourced foods. He is also recipient of the Courage of Conscience Award. >>MORE

Julia Butterfly Hill

Activist, Writer, Poet

Joyous Vegan, Julia Butterfly Hill, brought international attention to the plight of the world's last remaining ancient forests when she climbed 180 feet into the branches of a 1,000 year-old redwood tree and refused to come down. Her historic protest to the environmental destruction caused by the clear-cutting of ancient redwoods culminated after 738 days with an agreement that provided permanent protection for the tree known as Luna and a 3 acre buffer-zone around it. >> MORE

Robert Cheeke

Vegan Bodybuilder, Motivational Speaker, Author

Robert Cheeke grew up on a farm in Corvallis, Oregon where he adopted a vegan lifestyle in 1995 at age 15. Today he is an Amazon.com best-selling author of the book Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness - The Complete Guide to Building Your Body on a Plant-Based Diet.

As a two-time natural bodybuilding champion Robert has been considered one of VegNews Magazine's Most Influential Vegan Athletes. He tours North America regularly giving talks about his story transforming from a skinny farm kid to champion vegan bodybuilder. >> MORE

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

Author and Educator on Living Compassionately and Healthfully

For over 11 years, Colleen Patrick-Goudreau has guided people to becoming and staying vegan through sold-out cooking classes, bestselling books, inspiring lectures, engaging videos, and her immensely popular audio podcast, "Vegetarian Food for Thought." The award-winning author of five books >>MORE

Orestes Gutierrez, D.O.

Dr. Gutierrez is a vegan, live foodist and competitive runner. He is Navy trained and completed his Family Medicine Residency at the Mayo Clinic. He has a special interest in longevity, nutrition and sports medicine. >> MORE

David Gabbe

On the VegPath

David Gabbe is the author of David's Vegan Home Cooking, From David's Pure Vegetarian Kitchen, The Going Vegetarian Cookbook, and Why Do Vegetarians Eat Like That? He teaches plant-based cooking and nutrition in Oregon and Washington (since 1990) and has been a speaker at numerous seminars and conferences on the West Coast.
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Jo Stepaniak, MSEd

Author, Editor, Mediator

Jo Stepaniak, MSEd, has been involved with vegetarian and vegan-related issues for nearly five decades. She is the author or coauthor of seventeen books on compassionate living and vegan cuisine and a contributing author to many other books and national publications. >>MORE

Matt Bear

Connector, NonViolenceUnited.org

Matt Bear is a popular speaker and teacher drawing from his first-hand experience with farmed animals, his dedication to Social Justice issues, his continued advanced study of active Nonviolence, and his broad understanding of the interconnection and implications of our consumer choices on other people, on the planet, and on non-human animals. >>MORE

Claudia Delman

Outreach Manager, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM)

Claudia Delman received her Master of Public Health from Loma Linda University in 2007. She has been Outreach Manager for Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C. since 2000.

Claudia is a Certified Health Education Specialist responsible >> MORE

Shawn Donnille

Vice-President/Co-Owner of Mountain Rose Herbs

Shawn Donnille (along with his partner, Julie Bailey) owns Mountain Rose Herbs, a processor and supplier of organic herbs, spices, teas, and essential oils with a strict emphasis on organic agriculture.

Sustainability is at the core of  >>MORE