Nekeisha Alayna Alexis is a writer and speaker with wide-ranging interests related to human and other animal liberation and intersecting oppressions. She is the intercultural competence and undoing racism coordinator at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary.
Will Boisseau is a Ph.D. student at Loughborough University. His research focuses on the place of animal advocacy within the British left, particularly within anarchism and parliamentary socialism. Through his research he addresses a wide range of questions including the marginalization of animal rights in mainstream labor politics and the class and gender issues which influence these relationships.
Erika Cudworth is a reader in international politics and sociology at the University of East London and is co-chair of the Feminist Research Group. She is the author of Environment and Society (Routledge, 2003), Developing Ecofeminist Theory (Palgrave, 2005), The Modern State (with Tim Hall and John McGovern, Edinburgh University Press, 2007), Posthuman International Relations (with Steve Hobden, Zed, 2011) and Social Lives with Other Animals (Palgrave, 2011).
Brian Dominick is a radical social theorist interested in holistic solutions to systemic problems. He primarily writes economic vision, social change strategy, and news analysis. He was co-founder of the nonprofit hard news outlet NewStandard News and has been involved in many aspects of media production and journalism for more than 20 years.
Jim Donaghey is pursuing a Ph.D. on the relationships between anarchism and punk in contemporary international contexts at Loughborough University. He has been active in the Irish, UK, and European punk and anarchist scenes for more than a decade and was exposed to animal liberation and veganism through these networks.
Lara Drew is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Canberra. Her research examines the animal liberation movement and seeks to show through narrative stories how activists learn as they engage in activism. Her other research and writing activities include radical education, feminism and the body, and anarchist and anti-capitalist positions.
Aragorn Eloff is an anarchist, animal liberationist and radical environmentalist. He is part of the bolo’bolo collective, a Cape Town–based anarchist group that runs the bolo’bolo infoshop and vegan coffee house (www.bolobolo.co.za). An independent researcher, his interests lie in the application of poststructuralist, neo-materialist and anarchist ethical and political philosophy as it relates to oppressive social and ecological practices of hierarchy, exploitation and domination.
John Lupinacci is an assistant professor at Washington State University. He teaches in the Cultural Studies and Social Thought in Education program using an approach that advocates for the development of activist-scholar educators. His experiences teaching as a high school teacher, an outdoor environmental educator, and a community activist contribute to examining the relationships between schools and the cultural roots of social suffering and environmental degradation.
Anthony J. Nocella II, professor, author and community organizer, is a senior fellow of the Dispute Resolution Institute at the Hamline School of Law, editor of the Peace Studies Journal, and co-founder and executive director of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies and Save the Kids. He has published more than 55 scholarly articles and chapters and twenty books including Contemporary Anarchist Studies: An Introductory Anthology of Anarchy in the Academy (Routledge, 2009). He lives in Brooklyn.
Sean Parson is an assistant professor in the departments of Politics and International Affairs and Sustainable Communities at Northern Arizona University. He is academically interested in environmental activism, Critical Animal Studies, and exploring our culture’s obsession with superheroes. He has been involved in Food Not Bombs, climate justice activism, and the Northwest forest defense movement.
Mara J. Pfeffer is an instructor in the First Year Seminar Program at Northern Arizona University where she teaches courses on animal liberation, holistic justice and youth empowerment. Her research topics include ecofeminist and queer activisms; art as resistance; the intersections of earth, human and nonhuman animal liberation; and food justice, specifically decorporatizing campus foods and decolonizing veganism.
Kim Socha is the author of Women, Destruction, and the Avant-Garde (Rodopi, 2012) and Animal Liberation and Atheism (Freethought House, 2014). She is also a contributing editor to Confronting Animal Exploitation (McFarland, 2013) and Defining Critical Animal Studies (Peter Lang, 2014). She works as an English professor and social justice activist.
Richard J. White is a senior lecturer in economic geography at Sheffield Hallam University, specializing in anarchist geographies. His two longstanding research interests focus on developing a post-capitalist economic imaginary and problematizing human-animal relationships in society. He has published his research in key international interdisciplinary journals and in scholarly texts.
Drew Robert Winter is a scholar, writer and activist focused on Critical Animal Studies and intersectional approaches to social justice. Named one of the top 20 animal activists under 30 by VegNews magazine, he mentored more than 100 student animal rights groups and was director of publications at the Institute for Critical Animal Studies. He is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Anthropology at Rice University.