Featured Speakers

pattrice jones is a founder of VINE Sanctuary, an LGBTQ-led refuge for farmed animals that works within an ecofeminist understanding of intersectionality, as well as the author of The Oxen at the Intersection: A Collision. A former tenant organizer and antiracist educator who has taught college and university courses on the praxis of social change, pattrice writes and lectures frequently on the subjects of activist strategy and intersectionality, encouraging everybody to think more ecologically.

Donny Moss is the creator of TheirTurn.net, an online animal rights magazine with video and print news stories, commentary and calls to action. In 2008, Moss made BLINDERS, an award-winning documentary film about NYC’s controversial horse-drawn carriage trade. BLINDERS, which aired on the Documentary Channel, won a Genesis Award and was screened at film festivals nationwide. He is currently leading a grassroots campaign to compel the NY Blood Center to reinstate funding for 66 chimps who the organization abandoned in Liberia after experimenting on them for 30 years.

Robert C. Jones earned a PhD in philosophy from Stanford University where his doctoral research focused on the moral significance of nonhuman animal cognition. He is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at California State University. He is also a member of the Advisory Council of the National Museum of Animals and Society. Jones has published numerous articles and book chapters on animal ethics, animal cognition, food ethics, and research ethics, and has given nearly forty talks on animal ethics at universities and conferences across the globe.