This page lists all ACE staff affiliations with considered charities, and all ACE board affiliations with recommended charities, as per our Conflict of Interest Policy and our Researcher Conflict of Interest Policy.
Staff
Jon Bockman
- Volunteered for Vegan Outreach, Christian Vegetarian Association, and MFA
- Used materials from PCRM at outreach events
- Conducted PPV for MFA, humane education presentations using THL materials, and meatless monday institutional outreach using HSUS materials
- Worked with THL on international Facebook campaigns
- Received funding from Vegfund for 35+ outreach events as well as for international Facebook campaigns
- Worked for TAILS Humane Society and Oaken Acres Wildlife Center
- Served as coordinator for Farm Sanctuary’s Walk for Farm Animals
- Served as advisor to Effective Altruism Ventures
- Married to the volunteer Chief Operating Officer at America For Animals
- Has donated to Vegan Outreach, MFA, THL, Animal Equality, Faunalytics, Act Asia, FARM, and Sentience Politics
Allison Smith
- Serves as a member of the Animal Advocacy Research Fund oversight committee, which reviews proposals from charities being evaluated
- Married to a member of DxE’s Advisory Board
- Has donated to THL, MFA, DxE, and Vegan Outreach
Greg Boese
- Volunteers at the Animal Welfare Action Lab, including on a project that has received grant support from The Reducetarian Foundation
- Maintains close personal relationships with two co-founders of the Animal Welfare Action Lab
- Maintains a close personal friendship with one person who works at Mercy For Animals
Kathryn Asher
- Served as Research Director at Faunalytics
- Worked with Animal Equality, Animal Welfare Action Lab, Farm Sanctuary, FARM, MFA, GFI, Toronto Pig Save, VegFund, and Veganuary through Faunalytics
- Provided limited research feedback to a number of animal organizations through Faunalytics
- Interned at VegFund and World Animal Protection
- Volunteered at Beyond Carnism, Faunalytics, MFA Canada, GFI, Vegan America, Cat Rescue Maritimes (Saint John chapter), and the Fredericton SPCA
- Donates monthly to GFI and New Harvest
- Has donated to Better Eating International, FARM, Faunalytics, MFA, THL, Toronto Pig Save, We Animals, Cat Rescue Maritimes, Rattle The Cage Productions Inc., and Organization for the Rescue of Animals
- Served as a member of a proposal writing committee for a project funded by the Animal Advocacy Research Fund
- Received PhD funding from VegFund Merit Award and from an anonymous donor via a fiscal sponsorship through Faunalytics
- Maintains a close personal friendship with one person at Better Eating International
- Serves as a member of the Animal Advocacy Research Fund oversight committee, which reviews proposals from charities being evaluated
Toni Adleberg
- Has donated to GFI, MFA, and Collectively Free
Sofia Davis-Fogel
- Member of THL’s Fast Action Network and MFA’s oINK volunteer writing group
- Has donated to THL
- Maintains close personal friendships with one person at The Reducetarian Foundation, one person at ProVeg International, one person at New Harvest, one person at the Nonhuman Rights Project, and one person on DxE’s Coalitions Committee
Kieran Greig
- Member of THL’s Fast Action Network and MFA’s Hen Heroes volunteer group
- Volunteered at Faunalytics and the Animal Welfare Action Lab
- Has lived/lives with people who worked for the Foundational Research Institute and who volunteer for Animal Ethics
- Maintains a personal friendship with one person who volunteered at The Reducetarian Foundation
Jess Beames
- Volunteered and worked at Animals Australia
Jamie Spurgeon
- Member of a local branch of the Save Movement (part of Toronto Pig Save)
- Serves as a vegan mentor with Vegan Outreach’s mentor program
- Has donated to MFA, THL, GFI, Vegan Outreach, and Veganuary
Ashwin Acharya
- Has donated to HSUS
Erika Alonso
- Member of THL’s Fast Action Network volunteer group
Larry Butz
- Volunteered for MFA, Farm Sanctuary, Vegan Outreach, PETA, and PETA2
- Served as an officer for the Houston Animal Rights Team
- Served as editor at the Journal for Critical Animal Studies
- Organized the 2015 Institute for Critical Animal Studies North America Conference
Kalista Barter
- Worked at In Defense of Animals, America for Animals, and the Foundation to Support Animal Protection (PETA Foundation)
Gina Stuessy
- Volunteers at MFA, Vegan Outreach, Animal Equality, and the Alliance for Animals and the Environment
- Member of THL’s Fast Action Network volunteer group
- Served as board member at the Alliance for Animals and the Environment
- Worked at the Alliance for Animals and the Environment
- Serves as a vegan mentor with Vegan Outreach’s mentor program
Eric Herboso, Becca Imrich, and Roisin McAuley do not have any affiliations to report.
Board
Jonas Müller
- Serves as project leader for a Swiss veg ads project done by Vegan Society Switzerland and Sentience Politics which received advice from Nick Cooney and footage from Farm Sanctuary
- Was responsible for creating a Swiss version of a brochure from Albert Schweitzer Foundation
- Leafleted for Albert Schweitzer Foundation and THL
- Earning to give for THL
Peter Hurford
- Collaborated with Nick Cooney and MFA on their online ads study
- Provided free consulting to MFA on how to improve email and direct mail fundraising
Claire Zabel
- Sister is an MFA Fellow at Princeton University; brother volunteers for MFA
- Works for the Open Philanthropy Project, which has a program in farm animal welfare that includes research and grantmaking (not heavily involved in this program)
Jeff Sebo, Sam Bankman-Fried, and S. Greenberg do not have any affiliations to report.
This page lists affiliations that ACE has to organizations eligible for a recommendation, as per our Conflict of Interest Policy.
Compassionate Action for Animals
- Assisted ACE with a 2013 leafleting study by handing out booklets
- Assisted ACE with a 2013 humane education study by enrolling students in the study
Direct Action Everywhere (DxE)
- Zach Groff (International Press Coordinator) volunteers as a member of the Oversight Committee, which monitors and provides feedback to ACE Program Officer Greg Boese regarding grant applications for the Animal Advocacy Research Fund
Ethical Choices Program
- Assisted ACE with a 2013 humane education study by enrolling students in the study.
Factory Farming Awareness Coalition (FFAC)
- Assisted ACE with a 2013 humane education study by enrolling students in the study
Farm Animal Rights Movement (FARM)
- ACE staff have spoken at the annual AR conference, hosted by FARM, each year since 2014
- Michael Webermann (past Executive Director of FARM) volunteers as a member of the Oversight Committee, which monitors and provides feedback to ACE Program Officer Greg Boese regarding grant applications for the Animal Advocacy Research Fund. He served this role concurrently with his ED role at FARM for about six months.
Faunalytics
- ACE worked with Faunalytics to produce the survey guidelines project in 2014. In both 2015 and 2016, ACE worked with them to update this project.
- Che Green (Executive Director) and Kathryn Asher (Research Director) both volunteer as members of the Oversight Committee, which monitors and provides feedback to ACE Program Officer Greg Boese regarding grant applications for the Animal Advocacy Research Fund.
- ACE consulted with Faunalytics when creating several studies in 2013.
Humane Society of the United States (HSUS)
- Paul Shapiro (Vice President of Policy and formerly Vice President of the Farm Animal Protection Campaign) volunteered as a member of the Oversight Committee, which monitors and provides feedback to ACE Program Officer Greg Boese regarding grant applications for the Animal Advocacy Research Fund. He served this role for about 10 months.
Mercy For Animals (MFA)
- ACE board member Peter Hurford ran an online ads study in 2014–2016 that included working with Mercy For Animals to gather data
- Nick Cooney (Executive Vice President) volunteers as a member of the Oversight Committee, which monitors and provides feedback to ACE Program Officer Greg Boese regarding grant applications for the Animal Advocacy Research Fund.
- Assisted ACE with a 2013 leafleting study by handing out booklets
Sentience Politics1
- ACE accepts donations from two international countries through EAF, SP’s parent organization.
- ACE has been recommended to a donor by REG, which is a sister organization to SP, in 2015. REG staff tell us ACE is still on the list of charities they would recommend based on donor interest.
- Former ACE Researcher Jacy Reese co-founded and now works for Sentience Institute, a branch of Sentience Politics
- Two ACE staff spoke at the Sentience Conference in 2016
- ACE consulted with Sentience Politics in 2016 about overlap between our respective research on animal sentience and welfare and shared documentation to reduce duplication of effort
The Good Food Institute (GFI)
- Nick Cooney (Board Member) volunteers as a member of the Oversight Committee, which monitors and provides feedback to ACE Program Officer Greg Boese regarding grant applications for the Animal Advocacy Research Fund.
The Humane League (THL)
- Harish Sethu (Board Member, and Director of Humane League Labs) volunteers as a member of the Oversight Committee, which monitors and provides feedback to ACE Program Officer Greg Boese regarding grant applications for the Animal Advocacy Research Fund.
- Nick Cooney (Board Member) volunteers as a member of the Oversight Committee, which monitors and provides feedback to ACE Program Officer Greg Boese regarding grant applications for the Animal Advocacy Research Fund.
- Assisted ACE with a 2013 leafleting study by handing out booklets
- Assisted ACE with a 2013 humane education study by enrolling students in the study
Vegan Outreach
- Assisted ACE with a 2013 leafleting study by handing out booklets