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SEBA JOHNSON – Olympic athlete

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: DR. MICHAEL KLAPER

: GARY FRANCIONE
law professor, Rutgers University – the first academic to teach animal rights theory at an American university; author: “Rain Without Thunder”, “Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child or the Dog”, “Animals, Property, and the Law”, “Animals as Persons”, “The Animal Rights Debate”; with Anna Charlton: “Eat Like You Care”, “Animal Rights: the Abolitionist Approach”

: SUE COE
artist, illustrator; books: “Dead Meat”, “Sheep of Fools”, “Pit’s Letter”, “Cruel: Bearing Witness to Animal Exploitation”, “Paintings and Drawings” – art exhibit at World Vegan Summit & Expo: “The Animals’ Vegan Manifesto”

: WILL ANDERSON – author, “This Is Hope: Green Vegans and the New Human Ecology”

: BOB LINDEN
event emcee, host of 15-year broadcast “Go Vegan Radio with Bob Linden” at www.GoVeganRadio.com; presentation: “The Language of Speciesism and Human Supremacy”

: KEITH McHENRY
activist, founder: “Food Not Bombs”

: MILTON MILLS, M.D.
presentations: “Scientific Evidence: Humans Are Herbivores, Not Carnivores, Not Omnivores”; at Soul Food-For-Thought, Saturday evening: “Traditional Diets in Africa vs. Plantation-Food African American Diet of Today”

: VAIDYA PRIYANKA
health practitioner from a 700-year lineage of Ayurvedic women healers from India; presentation: “Vegan Ayurvedic Health and Why Dairy Is Filth”

: ANTENEH ROBA, M.D.
from Ethiopia, president of the International Fund for Africa; presentations: “Meaning for Today -Reflections of My Visit to the Slave Dungeons of West Africa” and “Africa Now – Climate Change, Environmental Devastation, and Your Food Choices”

: YEB SANO – chief UN climate negotiator for the Philippines

: MICHAEL DORF, professor, Cornell University

: MIYOKO SCHINNER, author and chef – Miyoko’s Creamery

: ANUJ SHAH
podcast host: Speaking of Vegan

: BYRON SMITH and JANICE SMITH, veganic farmers – Sunizona Family Farms

: BARRY TAYLOR, DVM

: WILL TUTTLE, author – “The World Peace Diet – Eating for Spiritual Health & Social Harmony”

: VEGAN BOSS – rapper. Performance during the “Soul Food-For-Thought” Dinner Show

: MIKE WEINBERG
educator, founder of VeganDiego, support model for vegan restaurants and businesses

: KENNETH G WILLIAMS
vegan activist, first vegan champion bodybuilder, co-host “Soul Food-For-Thought”

: PHILIP WOLLEN – Kindness Trust

: GARY STEINER
professor of philosophy, Bucknell University, author: “Descartes as a Moral Thinker: Christianity, Technology, Nihilism”, “Anthropocentrism and Its Discontents: The Moral Status of Animals in the History of Western Philosophy”, “Animals and the Moral Community: Mental Life, Moral Status, and Kinship”, “Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism”; presentations: “Animals in Western Culture”, “Animals as Persons”

: MARK SUTTON, author – “Heart Healthy Pizza”

: SHERRY COLB, professor, Cornell University – author of “Mind If I Order the Cheeseburger? And Other Questions People Ask Vegans”

: JACQUELINE DAY, LAUSDA Teacher of the Year when at Venice HIGH school – lecture on how to get more vegan food in schools

: DAVID LANGLOIS – International Vegan Association

: ALLEN HERNDON, veganic farmer – Freckled Sunlight Farms

: CINDY SHEEHAN
“Peace Mom” peace advocate, host: “Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox, organizer of Camp Casey Iraq War Protest at the Bush ranch in Texas, 2007 candidate for US House of Representatives, 2012 vice presidential nominee of the Peace and Freedom Party, 2014 California gubernatorial candidate, author: “Peace Mom: A Mother’s Journey through Heartache to Activism”, “Not One More Mother’s Child”, “Dear President Bush”, “The Obama Files: Chronicles of an Award-Winning War Criminal”, “Myth America: 20 Greatest Myths of the Robber Class and the Case for (Non-Violent) Revolution”, “Revolution, A Love Story”

: LINH LA – Loving Hut USA

: MAXIME GINOLIN – screening “Le Jugement”

: MARIANNA GONZALEZ

: SANDRA CUMMINGS – VeganKit.com

: VERA CRISTOFANI
Veganos pela Abolição. org

: VINCENT GUIHAN – Author, New American Vegan, and Director, Animal Emancipation

: JANETTE MURRAY-WAKELIN, author & ALAN MURRAY, both set a record of running 366 marathons in 366 consecutive days

: GURUDEV CHITRABHANU – special video greetings from India

: ANI PHYO, chef, author – providing a cooking demonstration

: BABETTE DAVIS, author, owner and chef of Stuff I Eat restaurant. Speaking during the “Soul Food for Thought” Dinner Show

: TAIMIE BRYANT, UCLA Law Professor

: BLAZE MOB , vegan LA reggae sensation from Kingston, Jamaica. – Performance during the “Soul Food-For-Thought” Dinner Show .

: ISAAK IFTIKHAR, owner of Viva La Vegan Grocery

: MONICA KAY, Award winning Vegan Pole Dancer and Certified Yoga Instructor – Conducting a yoga session

: ARMAITI MAY,
Doctor of Veterinary Medicine – Vegan Dogs & Cats

: MYQ KAPLAN
comedian who has appeared on the Tonight Show, David Letterman, Comedy Central, Last Comic Standing, America’s Got Talent; CD: “Vegan Mind Meld”

: SOFIA PINEDA OCHOA, M.D.

: TED NORDQUIST, CEO of Whole Soy, talking about the business of sustaining an organic vegan business.

: ERIC WEISMAN, creator of Evolution vegan dog & cat food

: ANDY MARS, PH.D.
director: VeganCamp.org, VeganKids.org; organizer of our event’s children’s activities

: JACQUELINE DAY, LAUSDA Teacher of the Year when at Venice HIGH school – lecture on how to get more vegan food in schools

: AMY JEAN DAVIS, Top 12 Female Finalist on American Idol – musical performance

: AMANDA BENHAM
dietitian in Brisbane, AU; presentations: “Vegan Nutrition for Healthy Children of All Ages”, “B-12 Update”

: JANICE STANGER, PH.D, author of the Perfect Formula Diet

: DR. ERIC WEISMAN, DC
Scientist, CEO, [email protected] 100% Complete Essential Protein Vegan Pet Foods & Supplement Compounds for Disease Dr. Weisman will discuss his “Easy Short Cut to Convert Strangers, Friends, Family Over to The Vegan Life Style”

: DONNA DE LORY, American singer, dancer and songwriter – performing with her band

: PAUL RODNEY TURNER, Director of Food for Life Global, the world’s largest vegan food relief and author of FOOD YOGA

: LAUREN CORE — “How compassion can help solve wicked water problems.”

: LORELEI PLOTCZYK, founder of grassroots campaign Truth or Drought, on breaking through society’s dangerous disconnect between meat production and water depletion

: LAMOUR & THE MYSTIK BAND
live reggae at our Saturday evening “Soul Food-For-Thought” presentation

: LORELEI PLOTCZYK, founder of grassroots campaign Truth or Drought, on breaking through society’s dangerous disconnect between meat production and water depletion

: DAVID NIBERT
professor of sociology, Wittenberg University, organizer of the “Section of Animals and Society” of the American Sociological Association, author: “Animal Rights / Human Rights: Entanglements of Oppression and Liberation”, “Animal Oppression and Human Violence”; presentation: “From Genghis Khan to Wall Street: Oppression of Other Animals, War, and Capitalism”

: JOHN McDOUGALL, M.D.
renowned medical professional, nutrition expert, and best-selling author, including: “The Starch Solution”, “Dr. McDougall’s Digestive Tune-Up”, “The McDougall Program for Women”, “The McDougall Program for a Healthy Heart”, “The McDougall Program for Maximum Weight Loss”, “The McDougall Quick and Easy Cookbook”; presentation: “Optimizing Vegan Health with Starch Foods + Dr. McDougall’s Color Picture Book on Food Poisoning”

: MICHAEL BEDAR
author: “Sweet Healing”, producer of documentary: “Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days”

: CHRIS HEDGES (via video presentation)
research fellow: Loma Linda University, Sustainability Research Institute, School of Earth and Environment; formerly research fellow, University of Leeds, UK – “Food Choices, Public Health, and the Environment”

: BILL TARA
natural health advocate and macrobiotic pioner since 1967, former VP of Erewhon Trading Company, one of America’s first distributors of organic foods, co-founder of Sunwheel Natural Food, London, founder of the Community Health Foundation in London, former executive director of Kushi Institute in London, former chairperson for the European Macrobiotic Assembly and the North American Macrobiotic Assembly, publisher of “Macrobiotics and Human Behavior”; presentation, with Marlene Watson-Tara: Human Ecology Project – food, politics, environment, human slavery, social justice, and animal rights

: MARLENE WATSON-TARA
macrobiotic counselor, health educator, natural foods chef, host of “Marlene and Friends”, author of best-selling “Macrobiotics for All Seasons”; presentations: with Bill Tara – Human Ecology Project – food, politics, environment, human slavery, social justice, and animal rights, and a macrobiotic food demonstration

: GENELLE PALACIO
activist, from the family of Cesar Chavez, vegan social justice hero

: GENESIS PALACIO
young activist, from the family of Cesar Chavez

: MERLIN “Magic” REES
“veganic” (vegan organic) gardener, professional orchardist, and educator, head gardener since 1999 at Shangri-La, Gentle World’s vegan education center in New Zealand, co-founder of the Far North Organics Association in New Zealand, and former Organic Inspection Certifier: presentation: “Grow Your Food Veganically – Better than Organic”

: GOLDEN REES
vegan educator, member of Gentle World board of directors for 21 years, chef and baker for The Vegan restaurant in Maui, co-author of the book “Incredibly Delicious: the Vegan Paradigm Cookbook”; presentations: introduction to the debut screening of the film “Gentle World – For the Vegan in Everyone” and a food demonstration

: DELTA FARRINGTON
owner: Eco Dogs & Cats; presentation: “The World of Vegan Products Now Available for Dogs and Cats”

: PAUL RODNEY TURNER
Food For Life, vegan food relief organization

: ABBI SAMUELS
activist, Food Not Bombs

: Dr. KIM A. WILLIAMS
President, American College of Cardiology, and Chief of Cardiology, Rush University

: VAIDYA PRIYANKA
health practitioner from a 700-year lineage of Ayurvedic women healers from India; presentation: “Vegan Ayurvedic Health and Why Dairy Is Filth”

: GOLDEN REES
vegan educator, member of Gentle World board of directors for 21 years, chef and baker for The Vegan restaurant in Maui, co-author of the book “Incredibly Delicious: the Vegan Paradigm Cookbook”; presentations: introduction to the debut screening of the film “Gentle World – For the Vegan in Everyone” and a food demonstration

: KAREN HAMZA
founder: Angel Hanz for the Homeless

: VAN DANG
Golden Lotus restaurant, Oakland – food demonstration

: VICTORIA FERNANDEZ, yoga classes, owner: Yoga by Victoria

: CHARLOTTE CRESSEY
educator, ecofeminist, activist, and creator Earth Energy Yoga®

: DELTA FARRINGTON
owner: Eco Dogs & Cats; presentation: “The World of Vegan Products Now Available for Dogs and Cats”

: ANNA CHARLTON
law professor, co-founder with Gary Francione: Rutgers Animal Rights Law Clinic, co-author with Gary Francione: “Eat Like You Care”, “Animal Rights – the Abolitionist Approach”

: ANITA MOOS
Anita Moos is the mother of two beautiful vegan children and also a vegan activist. She is a pilot by profession and uses every opportunity she finds to educate others about the Abolitionist Approach. She lives in Mumbai, India, and she promotes the idea that Ahimsa requires veganism

: DAMON McDONALD
Abolitionist vegan educator living in Australia

: EMILIA LEESE
Emilia is a lawyer, runner, blogger and avid traveller. Neapolitan-Brit-American living in London & the Highlands of Scotland. Translator “Mangia con consapevolezza” (“Eat Like You Care”), G. Francione & A. Charlton, Italian edition

: VANDA KADAS & VANI PUTHETI
Vanda Kadas is an Abolitionist vegan educator/moderator/ Hungarian translator for the Abolitionist Approach. Became vegan despite coming from a Hungarian village that was known as “Sausage Town”! Community volunteer and mother of a lifelong vegan.

Vani Putheti, daughter of Vanda Kadas, will be performing her self written “Vegan Song”

: FRANCES McCORMACK
lecturer, National University of Ireland, Galway. Interested in how pedagogy can help us understand animal advocacy. Blogger, regular contributor to Ecorazzi, half of Grumpy Old Vegans

: ALAN O’REILLY
recently retired environmental management consultant, founder and half of Grumpy Old Vegans.

: PEGGY WARREN
vegan activist from Washington State. Co-founder of Puget Sound Abolitionist Vegan Education (PSAVE)

: BENJAMIN MacELLEN
Benjamin is a writer, and the author of ‘A Cut Closer to Whole’ a memoir about his journey as a survivor of sexual abuse, and finding his true identity as a queer transman. He is an abolitionist vegan and guest contributor for Ecorazzi.com

: BEN FROST
I’m a musician, veganic gardener, and abolitionist educator from the UK. My advocacy efforts usually take the form of an approachable and friendly street table every month with my colleague, Jenny Trig, where we engage in discussion with members of the public about veganism as a moral imperative. I also help moderate Professor Francione’s Facebook page, Gary Francione: The Abolitionist Approach to Animal Rights

: JEFF PERZ
Animal rights philosopher and activist. Jeff has been vegan for 20 years and has written several animal rights articles. He has been abolitionist, adhering to Francione’s approach, for 17 years. In the past, Jeff has presented videos of animal exploitation on the streets. He has given away free vegan food, and had significant success helping people go vegan. Jeff is currently interested in examining the many strategies for non-violent activism applied to vegan advocacy.

: CHRISTIAN SANCHEZ
Abolitionist Vegan Educator of Afro-Caribbean-American background. Co-founder of an abolitionist vegan page, Animal Rights Revolution

: TODD SHUMAN
director: Wasteful UnReasonable Use; Water Crisis Forum

: SKY RAVEN
Vegan blacktivist, spoken word poet, hip hop artist, producer and sound engineer.