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Where are sentientists around the world?

Here’s our wall of sentientists. If, like them, you’re committed to evidence and reason and have compassion for all sentient beings, why not join them and add your tile here.

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Bevy Allen

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Daniela Maestre

Sentientist

Is an action to promote justice and equality for all sentient beings.

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Jackie Norman

Sentientist

“Even when I was deeply entrenched in the dairy and beef industries for almost two decades before becoming a vegan activist, it was impossible to deny or discount the personalities, emotions and the ability to feel and most of all suffer. We are all animals, we are all equal and none of us should be treated any different or lesser, for not being born the same. Non-human animals need no other purpose or use than to simply be.”

Jackie is a former dairy & beef farmer turned full-time animal rights advocate. She is head of communications and a founding board member for the global non-profit, VeganFTA (For The Animals). She co-hosts their podcast and live shows. Jackie is also an author and public speaker.

Jackie has a broadly naturalistic worldview although does have a sense that there may be something spiritual beyond the natural world. She is vegan and has a sentiocentric moral scope.

Find our Sentientist Conversation here on the Sentientism YouTube and here on the Sentientism Podcast.

@jackienormanfta

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Dean Edmonds

Sentientist

I have always been jarred by the differences in how we treat our fellow humans vs how we treat other sentient beings. As I matured I began to form my own set of beliefs, that our worth should not be defined by whether we are “human,” but rather, our sentience. My dog is sentient, and I treat her as such.

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Ana

Sentientist

I’m a Sentientist because I believe in science and morality for the benefit of all sentient beings.

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Faraz

Sentientist

Use our gift of intellect for the good of all life.

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Lucas Spiegel

Sentientist

Lucas studied and practiced architecture in the U.S., Canada, and India before leaving it all behind in an effort to rethink what it is to live a meaningful life. Since then he’s traveled the world, started a philanthropic enterprise, Haven Hearts, and written a beautiful, compassionate book. Along the way he enjoys playing frisbee, making things with his hands, and befriending every dog who crosses his path.

He is the author of The Weight of Empathy, a travel memoir. Lucas describes it as an exploration of both our relationship with animals and his own personal process of learning how to be a compassionate person in an often violent and uncaring world.

Lucas is vegan and has a naturalistic worldview, happily identifying himself as a Sentientist. His Sentientist Conversation with me is here on the Sentientism YouTube and here on the Sentientism Podcast.

LucasSpiegel.com
Lucas on Instagram
Lucas’ video from Palitana
Peepal Animal Rescue
Mino Valley Sanctuary
ElephantNaturePark

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Meike

Sentientist

I’m a Sentientist because it’s the only way of life that makes sense.

Meike on FaceBook

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Erika F Whitton

Sentientist

A species like ours – without compassion – is what it has become: a pathological, narcissistic, monster. We must change (go vegan!).

Erika on WordPress

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Adam Cardilini

Sentientist

Adam is a Lecturer in Environmental Science at Deakin University. He is an environmental scientist working on questions related to ecology, conservation and society. He is most interested in: i) how concern for Animals informs environmental values and practice, ii) the environmental potential of transitioning to plant-based agriculture and iii) more critical approaches to how the sciences consider Animals. Adam wants to leverage research to help create a better future for Animals, the environment and humans. Adam is also a co-host of the Freedom of Species show on Melbourne’s 3CR community radio.

Adam is vegan and has a naturalistic worldview. He says “I’m a Sentientist because, given what we know about sentient beings, sentientism seems like a good minimum moral standard.”

Our Sentientist Conversation is here on the Sentientism YouTube and the Sentientism Podcast!

Adam at Deakin
Adam at TheConversation
Adam’s VeganSci YouTube Channel

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Karthik Pulugurtha

Sentientist

Karthik is Managing Director of the Fish Welfare Initiative in India. He has a background in animal welfare & ethical livelihoods. He is a PhD scholar at the National Academy of Legal Studies & Research in India & previously managed the university’s Animal Law Centre. While there, he researched the unethical practices associated with industrialised egg production in India.
He has also worked as a research and livelihoods consultant for sixteen Members of Parliament from the Telugu Despam Party. Karthik is deeply committed to ending animal and human suffering and believes in the efficacy of bottom up approaches to change.

Karthik is vegan and has a sentiocentric moral scope. He is an atheist and has a naturalistic worldview.

Find my Sentientist Conversation with Karthik on the Sentientism YouTube here and on the Sentientism Podcast here.

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Ian Bryce

Sentientist

An entire morality can be constructed out of one princliple – respect for sentient beings – plus all of scientific knowledge.

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Laurence Burris

Sentientist

Compassion for animals.

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Elif Özdemir

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Steve Sapontzis

Sentientist

Steve is a philosopher and professor emeritus of philosophy at California State University, East Bay who specializes in animal ethics, environmental ethics and meta-ethics. He was co-founder in 1985 of the journal Between the Species: A Journal of Ethics and served as its initial co-editor. Steve was a member of the board of the American Philosophical Quarterly (1991–1994). In 1983, Steve founded, with his wife Jeanne, the Hayward Friends of Animals Humane Society. They now operate Second Chance, Helping the Pets of People in Need, in California. Steve wrote Morals, Reason, and Animals, in 1987, Subjective Morals, in 2011, and edited Food for Thought: The Debate over Eating Meat; published in 2004.

Steve has a naturalistic worldview, saying “I don’t have a religious bone in my body”. He grants moral consideration to all sentient beings.

Find Steve’s Sentientist Conversation with me here on the Sentientism YouTube and here on the Sentientism Podcast. We also had an earlier conversation but with a worse quality microphone so I’d suggest you watch that here one on YouTube with the subtitles switched on.

Steve on Wikipedia
stevesapontzis.com

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Poppy Permatasari

Sentientist

As a sentient being myself, I’d say I’m proudly a Sentientist. “Social oppression needs animals oppression” Realizing the roots cause of every social justice’s problem is the idea some species are better than the others. We always have moral obligation to do better for human animals and non human animals. Free them, Free Us, Free ALL

Poppy on Instagram

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Ian James

Sentientist

I believe our views should be based on naturalistic exploration of our universe, and that the most rational foundation for morality is the suffering and flourishing of sentient beings.

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Hal

Sentientist

Humans have evolved to the most advanced order of Primates we are naturally sentient

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Vegan Atheist Coral

Sentientist

Coral is an aspiring writer, an animal rescue volunteer/donor & runs a bunny boarding & grooming business. She is an ex-Mormon atheist with a naturalistic worldview & a “meat & potatoes girl” turned vegan.

Find our Sentientist Conversation here on the Sentientism YouTube and here on the Sentientism Podcast.

@atheist_vegan
wattpad.com/user/VCoralSandsV
inkitt.com/veganatheist
Coral on YouTube
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Coral on WorldAnvil

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Judy Tiberi

Sentientist

Ethical vegan for over 54 years.

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Mary Pat Champeau

Sentientist

Mary Pat is the director of graduate programs at the Institute for Humane Education & faculty at Antioch University. Mary Pat has been in the field of education since 1979 when she began teaching as a Peace Corps volunteer in Niger. Before joining IHE, she worked in refugee camps in Asia & supervised culture & language programs for the World Trade Institute in New York.

Mary Pat is vegan and has a naturalistic, sentiocentric worldview – a “card-carrying Sentientist!”

Find her Sentientist Conversation with me here on the Sentientism YouTube and here on the Sentientism podcast.

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David Michelson

Sentientist

David is an activist & chief petitioner of the Yes On IP13 campaign (www.yesonip13.org & @yesonip13) which aims to outlaw the harming & killing of sentient animals in the US state of Oregon. That’s without exceptions for animal agriculture, hunting, research or other forms of exploitation. Originally with a background in psychology & public health, David’s switch to activism began after bearing witness to pigs being killed in gas chambers.

David is vegan, has a naturalistic worldview and considers himself a sentientist.

Find his Sentientist Conversation with me here on the Sentientism YouTube and here on the Sentientism podcast.

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Cameron King

Sentientist

Cameron (cameron@animaladvocacyafrica.org) is the Operations Lead for Animal Advocacy Africa (& @Animal_Africa). Cameron ran his own eCommerce business for several years before pivoting to charity entrepreneurship to have a more extensive & substantial positive impact on the world. Cameron has been involved in the Effective Altruism community for over ten years & went through Charity Entrepreneurship’s 2020 incubation program.

He is vegan, has a sentiocentric, naturalistic worldview and is happy to describe himself as a Sentientist.

Find our Sentientist Conversation on the Sentientism YouTube here or on the Sentientism podcast here.

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Jazar Mohamed

Sentientist

Because I’m sentient, and I think that is the most ethical way forward.

Jazar on FaceBook

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Jessica Lohmann

Sentientist

Because humans are not above nature, we are nature and therefore must protect it. All living beings have a soul, even plants.

@JessLohm

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XeL NaGa

Sentientist

Ahimsa- lowest possible suffering for all sentient beings. You explain it very well.

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Nick Pendergrast

Sentientist
Nick (@NickPende & theconversation) is a Sociologist who researches social movements, social change & Critical Animal Studies. He is a member of The Institute for Critical Animal Studies, the International Association of Vegan Sociologists & The Australian Sociological Association. Nick co-hosts the Freedom of Species podcast & radio show on Melbourne’s 3CR community radio station & also co-hosts the Progressive Podcast Australia podcast with his partner Katie
Nick is vegan and has a sentiocentric, naturalistic worldview.

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Abhishek

Sentientist

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Cat Besch

Sentientist

Cat founded and leads Vietnam Animal Aid & Rescue. She is also a writer & activist addressing many non-human animal issues.

Find our Sentientist Conversation on the Sentientism YouTube here or the Sentientism Podcast.

@CatBeschVN
Cat on Medium
@vnanimalaid
www.vnanimalaid.org

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Michael Yonkers

Sentientist

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