Category: Interviews & Conversations
Leah McKelvie and Oscar Horta are two of the three co-founders at Animal Ethics. They spoke with ACE Research Associate Jamie Spurgeon on August 14, 2017. This is a summary of their conversation.
What are some of Animal Ethics’ recent accomplishments? … Read more
Bruce Friedrich and Clare Bland are the co-founder/Executive Director and the development Director of The Good Food Institute, respectively. They spoke with ACE Research Associate Kieran Greig on August 9, 2017. This is a summary of their conversation.
What are the Good Food Institute’s three biggest accomplishments of the past year? … Read more
David Coman-Hidy is the President of The Humane League. He spoke with ACE Research Associate Ashwin Acharya on July 27, 2017. This is a summary of their conversation.
What are some of The Humane League’s biggest accomplishments?
The Humane League’s single biggest accomplishment in the past year has been the successful launch of a coalition-led “broiler initiative” … Read more
Dobrosława Gogłoza is the co-founder and CEO of Otwarte Klatki (Open Cages). She spoke with ACE Research Associate Kieran Greig on July 6, 2017. This is a summary of their conversation.
How does Open Cages measure the outcomes of their most important programs? … Read more
Francisco, Aïda, and Cristina are the President, CEO, and a volunteer for AnimaNaturalis respectively. They spoke with ACE Researcher Toni Adleberg and Research Editor Sofia Davis-Fogel on July 13, 2017. This is a summary of their conversation.
What is the focus of AnimaNaturalis? … Read more
Jon Camp is Vice President, Grassroots of The Humane League (THL). He spoke with ACE Research Associate Kieran Greig on July 31, 2017. This is a summary of their conversation.
Location of Leafleting
Camp believes that, because of the combination of Vegan Outreach’s and The Humane League’s (THL’s) work, … Read more
Rachel Black is the national volunteer coordinator of The Humane League (THL). She spoke with ACE Research Associate Kieran Greig on August 7, 2017. This is a summary of their conversation.
Leafleting at Colleges
Exactly what happens at a college leafleting event, … Read more
Matt Ball is the co-founder, President, and Executive Director of One Step for Animals. He spoke with ACE Research Associate Kieran Greig on August 8, 2017. This is a summary of their conversation.
How Content Decisions Are Made
The first leaflet Ball was involved in creating was in 1990. … Read more
Aryenish Birdie is founder and Executive Director of Encompass. Prior to Encompass, Birdie was a federal lobbyist at the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. She was part of a four-woman team instrumental in reforming the Toxic Substances Control Act to ensure that animal protection language was integrated into the law. … Read more
lauren1 Ornelas is the founder and Executive Director of Food Empowerment Project, and has been active in the animal rights movement for more than 30 years. She is the former Executive Director of Viva!USA, a national nonprofit vegan advocacy organization at which she investigated factory farms and ran consumer campaigns. … Read more
We recently had the pleasure of speaking with Raffi Ciavatta and Lili Trenkova. Raffi is an “art Director/Graphic Designer, immigrant, queer, activist, poet, and radical dreamer.” Lili is an “organizer, environmental designer, 3D artist, fabricator, and musician.” They are the co-founders of Collectively Free. … Read more
Jack Norris is the Executive Director of Vegan Outreach. He spoke with ACE Researcher Jacy Reese on September 15, 2016. This is a summary of their conversation.
Vegan Outreach’s Greatest Strengths and Weaknesses
Vegan Outreach (VO) still has a strong leafleting program. … Read more
The following is a summary of a conversation that took place on September 27, 2016 as part of our evaluation of Animal Equality. Sharon Núñez Gough spoke with Toni Adleberg, ACE Research Associate.
Animal Equality’s Major Strengths
One of Animal Equality’s strengths is that they are an international organization. … Read more
The following is a call summary of a conversation that took place on October 4, 2016 as part of our evaluation of the Farm Animal Rights Movement (FARM). Michael spoke to Jacy Reese, ACE Researcher.
FARM’s Strengths
The strengths outlined in ACE’s last review still apply to FARM. … Read more
Paul Shapiro is the Vice President of the Farm Animal Protection Campaign (FAPC) of the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). He spoke with ACE Researcher Jacy Reese on September 15, 2016.
Major Strengths of the HSUS FAPC
HSUS is the biggest animal group on Earth, … Read more
The following is a summary of a conversation that took place on September 2, 2016 between Nick Cooney and ACE Researcher Jacy Reese.
MFA’s Strengths
One of MFA’s main strengths is their utilitarian approach to program decisions. Every program aims to relieve the greatest amount of animal suffering per dollar spent. … Read more
The following is a conversation between Mahi Klosterhalfen, CEO of the Albert Schweitzer Foundation (ASF) and Jacy Reese of Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE). ACE last spoke to ASF in 2014.
Assessment of Strengths and Weaknesses
In the last couple of years, … Read more
The following is a summary of a conversation that took place as part of our evaluation of the Modern Agriculture Foundation. Shaked Regev is the Executive Director of the Modern Agriculture Foundation. Regev spoke with ACE Researcher Jacy Reese on July 19, … Read more
The following is a summary of the second conversation that took place as part of our evaluation of the Modern Agriculture Foundation (MAF). Shaked Regev is the Executive Director of MAF. Yaron Bogin will be MAF’s first full-time employee. Regev and Bogin spoke with ACE Researcher Jacy Reese on September 7, … Read more
The following is a summary of two conversations that took place as part of our evaluation of Veganuary. Jane Land and Matthew Glover are the founders of Veganuary. Land and Glover spoke with ACE Researcher Jacy Reese on July 27th, 2016 and September 15, … Read more
Bruce Friedrich and Clare Bland are, respectively, Executive Director and Development Director of The Good Food Institute (GFI). They spoke with ACE’s Toni Adleberg and Jacy Reese on July 29, 2016, and they spoke again with Toni on September 26, 2016. … Read more
David Coman-Hidy is the Executive Director of The Humane League (THL). He spoke with ACE Researcher Jacy Reese on September 16, 2016.
The Humane League’s Strengths
THL fosters an ethos of effectiveness and adaptability. One of their greatest strengths is their highly efficient corporate relations and campaigns team. … Read more
Brad spent 35 years in the investment management business as Senior Vice President for Jennison Associates, a subsidiary of Prudential Financial, until his retirement in 2002. In 2001 he organized the Animal Welfare Trust (AWT) as a private operating foundation dedicated to animal protection and animal rights issues. … Read more
Cat Liguori is the International Ad Campaign Coordinator at The Humane League (THL). Andrea Gunn is the Managing Director, who helps oversee THL’s ads program.
The following is a summary of a conversation that took place on March 2, 2016 as part of our investigation of online ads. … Read more
Award-winning photojournalist, author, and educator Jo-Anne McArthur has been documenting the plight of animals on all seven continents for over a decade. Her project We Animals has become an internationally celebrated archive, and over one hundred animal organizations have benefited from her photography, … Read more
Josh Kalla is a PhD student in political science at University of California, Berkeley. He researches the effectiveness of online ads in changing the behavior and attitudes of voters.
The following is a summary of a conversation that took place on March 11, … Read more
Jose Valle is co-founder and Director of Investigations for Animal Equality. He currently manages the organization’s online ads program.
The following is a summary of a conversation that took place on March 14, 2016 as part of our investigation of online ads. … Read more
Alan Darer is the Education Project Coordinator at Mercy For Animals (MFA). Among other activities, he oversees their online ads program.
The following is a summary of a conversation that took place on February 24, 2016 as part of our investigation of online ads. … Read more
Will Potter is an award-winning investigative journalist and author based in Washington, D.C. He specializes in dissident politics and culture, the policing of dissent, and civil liberties post-9/11. His work has appeared in the world’s top media outlets, including the Washington Post, … Read more
David J. Wolfson is a partner at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP. He has published extensively in the animal protection field and has taught animal law at Harvard and NYU. He represents a number of animal protection groups including the Humane Society of the United States, … Read more