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Anders is a peace entrepreneur, philosopher, academic, and technologist. He is founding director of the Peace and Conflict Science Institute (PACS), an academic think-tank and advocacy organisation with special consultative status at the United Nations that aims to put peace and rights mechanisms on more rigorous, evidence-based foundations. Anders is also an AI Consultant at the University of Oxford.

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

Andersreagan.com
PACSInstitute.org
Anders’ LinkTree
Anders on LinkedIn

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Mike Berners-Lee is a professor and fellow of the Institute for Social Futures at Lancaster University and director and principal consultant of Small World Consulting. His books include How Bad are Bananas?, The Burning Question and There Is No Planet B and he is a contributing author to The Climate Book created by Greta Thunberg. His latest book is A Climate of Truth.

Mike has a naturalistic worldview and seems to have at least a sentiocentric moral scope.

“A Climate of Truth”
Mike on Wikipedia
@MikeBernersLee
Small World Consulting

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Altamush is an animal and environmental law professor. He teaches Pakistan’s 1st Animal Law Advocacy Course and is Founding Managing Partner At Environmental and Animal Rights Consultants, Pakistan’s 1st dedicated Animal and Environmental law and policy firm. Altamush is known for his non-profit work on Interspecies Justice for which he has won multiple awards. He also co-founded the Charity Doings Foundation, a non-profit that aims to save all life, be it human, animal, or the environment in Pakistan. Amongst many other advisory roles he serves as a strategic academic advisor and advocate for Muslim Veganism and Environmentalism at Green Islam.

Altamush is vegan and has, at least, a sentiocentric moral scope. He applies a broadly naturalistic epistemology in his work while having faith-based Islamic beliefs.

@AltamushSaeed
Altamush on LinkedIn
Altamush on Instagram
@earcpakistan
Charitydoings.org

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Thom Norman is the co-founder of FarmKind (www.farmkind.giving), a new non-profit focused on raising money for some of the best farmed animal charities. FarmKind is designed to help donors both have a big impact for animals and donate to the organisations they care about most. It allows users to split donations between an expert-recommended super-effective charity and their favourite charity, then provides a bonus on both.

FarmKind was founded through the Charity Entrepreneurship incubation program (www.charityentrepreneurship.com) earlier this year. FarmKind aims to help close the funding chasm for farmed animal charities: there is estimated to be just $200m per year to cover 100 billion farmed animals.

Doing good has always been a driving ambition for Thom, something that might trace back to his upbringing in a strongly religious household. He has followed a fairly classic route to effective altruism, through veganism and Peter Singer. However, his own philosophy and values are less EA-typical, as much motivated by John Rawls as utilitarianism. Thom also has a strong interest in politics as a force for change, having been active in politics for over a decade and worked in the UK civil service.

Thom has a broadly naturalistic worldview. He is vegan and has a sentiocentric moral scope.

FarmKind
@FarmKindThom
Thom on LinkedIn

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Noella is a Brooklyn-based freelance culture writer whose writing has appeared in Marie Claire, Teen Vogue, the Washington Post, Vox and elsewhere. Noella’s reporting ranges from Black culture to queer identity to intersectional veganism, internet culture, and more. She describes herself as a “journalist, vegan foodie, pokemon trainer, dj, and abolitionist.” One of her most recent pieces, for Vox, was “I’m a Black vegan. Why don’t you see more of us?”

Noella is vegan and has, at least, a sentiocentric moral scope. She was brought up as a Baptist Christian but is not religious any more, describing herself as agnostic. Although she applies a naturalistic epistemology in most situations she does leave space for non-evidence based supernatural beliefs.

NoellaWilliams.com
All Noella’s links on CampSite
@yonoella
Noella on Insta
I’m a Black vegan. Why don’t you see more of us?

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Monica Murphy is a veterinarian and a writer. With Bill Wasik, editorial director of The New York Times Magazine, she wrote “Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus” which was a Los Angeles Times best seller and a finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. Their latest book together, “Our Kindred Creatures” makes a case for seeing the fight against animal cruelty as a crucial thread in America’s history. Readers are introduced to the activists, scientists, and moguls who helped create our modern views on animals, with our intense compassion for certain species and ignorant disregard for others.

Monica has a broadly naturalistic worldview and at least a theoretical sentiocentric moral scope.

@murphydvm

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Bill Wasik is the editorial director of The New York Times Magazine. With Monica Murphy, veterinarian and writer, he wrote “Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus” which was a Los Angeles Times best seller and a finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. Their latest book together, “Our Kindred Creatures” makes a case for seeing the fight against animal cruelty as a crucial thread in America’s history. Readers are introduced to the activists, scientists, and moguls who helped create our modern views on animals, with our intense compassion for certain species and ignorant disregard for others.

Bill has a broadly naturalistic worldview and at least a theoretical sentiocentric moral scope.

@billwasik
Bill on Wikipedia

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Richard is Reader in Sociology at Edge Hill University in the UK, working at the nexus of critical animal studies, environmental sociology, the sociology of climate change and gender studies. He is co-director of The Centre for Human Animal Studies, an interdisciplinary forum for research and activities that engage with the complex material, ethical and symbolic relationships between humans, other animals, and their environments. Richard is the author of many articles, papers and books for both academic audiences and the wider public, including “The Climate Crisis and Other Animals“.

Richard has a naturalistic worldview. He is vegan and has, at least, a sentiocentric moral scope.

RichardTwine.com
@RichardTwine
The Centre for Human Animal Studies at Edge Hill University
@CfHAS

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Jesse is Managing Director of the New Roots Institute. He oversees programming, people operations, and implementation of New Roots Institute’s strategy. Jesse is a writer, academic, and has been an educator for nearly two decades. He earned a B.A. from UC Berkeley in 2002 and an MFA from the New School in 2007. Shortly thereafter, he began teaching high school students about the ethics of our food culture. Later, during his PhD work, Jesse continued to include environmental and animal ethics on the syllabi of his undergraduate classes at the City University of New York, where for five years he taught philosophy, literature, writing, and rhetoric. In 2017, he moved to Los Angeles to apply his years of research and educational experience in the non-profit sphere. Outside of New Roots Institute, you may find him practicing yoga, appreciating beauty in its myriad forms, reading in one of his preferred languages, or teaching food politics at UCLA.

Jesse has a broadly naturalistic epistemology. He has at least a sentiocentric moral scope and is vegan.

Jesse at the New Roots Institute
Jesse on LinkedIn
@jmtandler

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Arran Stibbe is Professor in Ecological Linguistics at the University of Gloucestershire. In his teaching and research he focuses on how language makes us who we are as people, and the role of language in building the kind of society we live in, using discourse analysis and ecolinguistics. Ecolinguistics examines how language encodes the stories we live by, and shapes how we see ourselves and our relationship with other animals and the earth. This involves linguistic analysis of a wide range of discourses, from advertising which encourages people to buy unnecessary and ecologically damaging products, to the inspirational language of nature writing. He is founder of the International Ecolinguistics Association.

Arran has a naturalistic epistemology. He is vegan and has, at least, a sentiocentric moral scope.

Arran at the University of Gloucestershire
The Stories We Live By free online course
International Ecolinguistics Association
Stibbe, Arran (2024) Econarrative: ethics, ecology and the search for new narratives to live by. London: Bloomsbury
Stibbe, Arran (2021) Ecolinguistics: language, ecology and the stories we live by (second edition). London: Routledge

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Maneesha Deckha is a law professor at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. Her work initially spanned human rights, injustice, feminist theory, post-colonial & decolonial theory and later, inter-species justice and its links and intersectionality with human social justice. Maneesha founded and directs the Animals & Society Research Initiative at Victoria University. She is the author of the book “Animals as Legal Beings”.

Maneesha is Hindu, an atheist and has a naturalistic worldview. She is vegan and has at least a sentiocentric moral scope.

Maneesha at the University of Victoria
A Deeper Kindness documentary series
Human Children, Nonhuman Animals, and a Plant-Based Vegan Future

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Joel is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University New Orleans. After completing his B.A. in philosophy at the University of Akron, he was a United States Peace Corps Volunteer in Panama working in environmental education and sustainable development. He completed his doctorate in philosophy at the University of Tennessee. Joel was a scholar-in-residence at Wesleyan University in 2013 as the New York University Animal Studies Initiative’s Animal Ethics and Public Policy Fellow. He held visiting assistant professorships at Washington State University and Binghamton University, SUNY, before coming to Loyola. His main areas of research are applied ethics, especially environmental ethics, and the philosophy of science. One of his many academic publications is “Minding Nature: A Defense of a Sentiocentric Approach to Environmental Ethics“.

Joel has a naturalistic worldview and a sentiocentric moral scope.

Joel at Loyola
Joel on LinkedIn
Joel at PhilPeople

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Mark Humanity is a long-time vegan activist. He currently lives on the edge of a rainforest in New Zealand and is on the Board of the Vegan Society of Aotearoa, New Zealand. Mark has been involved in animal rights since a teenager, initially in Ireland’s embryonic movement and later in the much more developed UK movement. A hunt saboteur for many years, Mark has been vegan since 1989 and got involved with the NZ Vegan Society via his vegan outreach Initiative called “Vegan Living Auckland”. He is currently helping raise two plant-based children and has a background in mental health nursing. Mark is the author of “The Humanity Trigger“.

Mark has a naturalistic worldview (ex-Catholic). He is vegan and has a sentiocentric moral scope.

Mark at Earth Island Books
The Humanity Trigger
The Humanity Trigger Book

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Robert Grillo is an activist, author and speaker for all species. He is also the founder and director of Free from Harm, a non profit dedicated to helping end animal exploitation. He founded Slaughter Free Chicago in 2018 which has now grown into the Slaughter Free Network. As a communications professional for over 25 years, Robert once worked on large food industry accounts where he acquired a behind-the-scenes perspective on food branding and marketing. His book, Farm to Fable: The Fictions of Our Animal-Consuming Culture, explores the powerful narratives driving our culture of mass animal consumption. Robert’s other published works include contributions to The Humane Hoax, Caged: Top Activists Share Their Wisdom on Effective Animal Advocacy and Circles of Compassion: Connecting Issues of Justice.

Robert is non-religious and has a naturalistic worldview. He is vegan and has a sentiocentric moral scope.

RobertGrillo.com
@robert_grillo
@free_from_harm
Free from Harm

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Valerie is a writer of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Her book “Living With Death Without God” explores how non-religious people think about and cope with death and grieving.

She is non-religious and has a naturalistic worldview. She is vegan and has a sentiocentric moral scope.

@valeriejack
@Valeriejackwrites on Instagram
Valeriejackwrites on Facebook
Valerie on the Humanism Now podcast
Valerie on the Mortal Atheist

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Louisa is a Religious Education (RE) Teacher and Head of Life Skills at a school in England. She is host of the RE podcast, an RE Subject reviewer for Oak National, a member of the NATRE (National Association for Teachers of Religious Education) executive committee and the Surrey SACRE (Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education) as well as being a public speaker and author.

Louisa has a broadly naturalistic, agnostic worldview (ex-Catholic and ex-Protestant). She has at least a sentiocentric moral scope.

@TheREPodcast
The RE Podcast
Louisa on Instagram
The RE Podcast on Facebook

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Leigh Claire La Berge is Professor in City University of New York‘s English Department. Her work focuses on aesthetics and political economy. Her first book, “Scandals and Abstraction: Financial Fiction of the Long 1980s”, tracked the convergences of finance, realism and postmodernism in literature and culture throughout the 1980s in the United States. Her second book, “Wages Against Artwork:  Decommodified Labor and the Claims of Socially Engaged Art” explored the twin rise of new forms of socially engaged art alongside what she called “decommodified labor,” or labor that is not recompensed. Along with Alison Shonkwiler, Leigh Claire is the co-editor of the collection, “Reading Capitalist Realism”. She recently published a book about animality and economy entitled “Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary”. She is working on a new book called “Fake Work: How I Began to Suspect that Capitalism is a Joke” about her experience with corporate labor, Y2K, and management consultants.

Leigh Claire has a non-religious, naturalistic worldview. She is vegan and has a sentiocentric moral scope.

Leigh Claire at CUNY on Academica.edu
@MarxForCats
Marx For Cats Video Series

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John is an activist academic, a green political economist and former Green Party politician in Northern Ireland. He is Professor of Green Political Economy in the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen’s University Belfast. His main research interests span politics, economics, the ethics of sustainability/sustainable development, green moral and political theory, green political economy, vulnerability, resilience, civic republicanism and green politics, Irish/Northern Irish politics, Q Methodology and sustainable energy politics and policy.

John is non-religious and has a naturalistic worldview. He is vegan and has, at least, a sentiocentric moral scope.

@ProfJohnBarry
John on LinkedIn
John’s “Marxist Lentilist” Blog
John on Academia.edu
John at QUB
John on Wikipedia

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Carol is a Lecturer in psychology at the University of Stirling teaching social psychology and quantitative research methods. She is interested in inequality, social identity, veganism and conspiracism. Carol co-authored “The Cheese Paradox” with Devon Docherty.

Carol has a broadly naturalistic worldview although is open to the possibility of “something beyond” the natural world, being drawn to pagan and Celtic influences. She is vegan and has, at least, a sentiocentric moral scope.

@DrCarolJasper
@veganfoodtrainer

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Maja has an MSc in Clinical Health Psychology. She is passionate about research and advocacy focused on improving well-being for all human and non-human animals. She is the primary author, along with co-authors Devon Docherty and Carol Jasper, of the paper Out of sight, out of mind: How pescetarians manage dissonance by creating distance. There’s an introduction to the paper here.

Maja has a naturalistic, non-religious worldview. She is vegan and includes a sentiocentric moral scope in her “radical, ecocentrist” perspective.

@maja_cullen_

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Devon is a researcher, writer and animal advocate with Surge and (Earthling) Ed Winters. She has an MA in Human-Animal Interactions from the University of Stirling and is a psychology teaching assistant there. Devon also founded and was president of the University of Stirling Student’s Union Vegan & Rights for Animals (VERA) Society. Devon co-authored “The Cheese Paradox” with Carol Jasper.

Devon has a non-religious, naturalistic worldview. She is vegan and has a sentiocentric moral scope.

@devonmdocherty
Devon on LinkedIn
@earthlinged

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Emilia is co-author of the book Think Like A Vegan and host of the Think Like a Vegan podcast. She is involved in the Birchfield Highlands re-wilding project in Scotland, edits the quarterly magazine for The Heath & Hampstead Society in London and has developed life skills and ethics workshops for underserved youth. Professionally, she has been a corporate finance lawyer for over 20 years.

Emi is vegan and has at least a sentiocentric moral scope. She has a broadly naturalistic worldivew.

EmiliaLeese.com
@emisgoodeating
Think Like a Vegan Podcast

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Hakeem is co-founder and CEO of Veggie Victory, Nigeria’s first plant-based food tech company. Hakeem and his partner, Bola Adeyanju, also founded Nigeria’s first vegan restaurant, V Café, and now run the VChunks meat alternative product company – designed to help veganise Nigerian cuisine. Hakeem is also country director for ProVeg Nigeria.

Hakeem is vegan and has, at least, a sentiocentric moral scope.

Hakeem on LinkedIn

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Laura is Education Officer at The Vegan Society and Chair of The Vegan Society’s Education Network. She is a qualified primary school teacher and well known for introducing the phrase ‘vegan-inclusive education’ to the education sector. Laura worked for several years as the UK’s only vegan inclusion education specialist under the pseudonym ‘Primary Veducation’ and continues to offer training to school staff on what it means to be vegan and how to appropriately teach and treat vegan learners in their care. Laura also empowers vegan learners and parents/guardians by facilitating the creation of peer-developed and reviewed resources and offering supportive interventions.

Laura has a broadly naturalistic epistemology. She is vegan (of course!) and has at least a sentiocentric moral scope.

Laura at the Vegan Society
@laura_diamondo
Veducated: An Educator’s Guide for Vegan Inclusive Teaching

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Troy Vettese is an environmental historian who specializes in environmental economics, animal studies, and energy history. In 2019 he completed his doctorate in history at New York University. From 2019 to 2021, he worked at Harvard University as a William Lyon Mackenzie King postdoctoral research fellow. He has collaborated with Drew Pendergrass, an environmental engineer, on numerous projects including their book Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics .

Troy is currently revising his dissertation on neoliberal environmental thought into a book, tentatively titled ‘Beyond Externality’. In addition to his academic work, Vettese writes on a wide array of environmental topics for a popular audience, and has had essays published in the Guardian, the New Statesman, Jacobin, N+1, Book Forum, and Boston Review.

Troy has a broadly naturalistic worldview. He is vegan and has, at least, a sentiocentric moral scope.

Half-Earth Socialism (play the game and see if you can save our world!)
Troy at the European University Institute

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Jimmy Videle is a farmer, naturalist (in the sense of working to understand nature scientifically), and researcher. He is the author of The Veganic Grower’s Handbook: Cultivating Fruits, Vegetables, and Herbs from Urban Backyard to Rural Farmyard and the co-founder of NAVCS-Certified Veganic. His writing has appeared in many publications including CounterPunch, Countercurrents, and LA Progressive.

He uses a naturalistic epistemology in his work but also has some supernatural aspects to his worldview. He is vegan and has, at least, a sentiocentric moral scope.

Jimmy’s YouTube Show
Jimmy on Facebook
The Veganic Grower’s Handbook
Jimmy Videle – Observatory
Publications – The Humane Herald
La Ferme de L’Aube
Jimmy’s Boileau Biodiversity Reserve Crowdfunder
North American Veganic Certification

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David specializes in European philosophy, the history and philosophy of science and the philosophy of animal minds. He is interested in the problem of consciousness, the study of lived experience and the value of the humanities. David lives in San Francisco, California and is Associate Professor of Humanities at San Francisco State University. He has previously worked at Johns Hopkins University, Laurentian University, Dillard University, and Emory University (where he received his Ph.D. in 2015). He is the author of “When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness” and co-host, with Ellie Anderson, of the Overthink Podcast. His work has been covered by The New York Times, CNN, ABC, The Atlantic, Le Parisian, El País, and Forbes, among others.

David has a sentiocentric moral scope and a naturalistic epistemology.

@DrPenaGuzman1
Overthink Podcast
David at San Francisco State University

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Jonathan is an ethics strategist, writer, social change advocate and public speaker, He is Executive Director of the Organisation for the Prevention of Intense Suffering (OPIS), a Swiss-based think-and-do tank that promotes the prevention of human and non-human suffering as our overriding global ethical priority. His book, The Battle for Compassion: Ethics in an Apathetic Universe, explores the question “What matters?”. His new book The Tango of Ethics: Intuition, Rationality and the Prevention of Suffering goes further in proposing a rigorous reassessment of how we think about ethics.

Jonathan is non-religious and has a naturalistic worldview. He is vegan and has a sentiocentric moral scope.

JonathanLeighton.org
preventsuffering.org
@jonleighton1

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Chris is the Director of Bryant Research and the Head of Policy at the Alternative Proteins Association. He is a social scientist and an expert on alternative protein markets and marketing. He has published several papers on consumer acceptance, policy, nutritional value, and other social dimensions of cultivated meat, plant-based meat, and fermentation-derived animal product alternatives. He has worked with alternative protein companies and non-profits, including THIS, Formo, Ivy Farm Technologies, Aleph Farms, Wild Type, ProVeg International, Mercy For Animals, and the Good Food Institute.

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

@SirChrisBryant
@Bryant_Research
BryantResearch.co.uk
Bryant Research on LinkedIn

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Christof is a neurophysiologist and computational neuroscientist best known for his work on the neural basis of consciousness on which he worked with Nobel Prize winner Francis Crick for 24 years. He is the president and chief scientist of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle. Having originally trained as a physicist, from 1986 until 2013, he was a Professor of Biology and Engineering at the California Institute of Technology in Southern California.

Christof describes his passion in life as “to understand how I came to be in this wonderful, mysterious universe. Not so much me, personally, but me as a conscious, experiencing thing surrounding by other conscious organisms and trees, stars, and the sea.” Over the last decade, he has worked closely with the psychiatrist and neuroscientist Giulio Tononi. Together they advocate for an Integrated Information Theory (IIT) of consciousness – often seen as a modern version of panpsychism that only ascribes consciousness to entities with some degree of irreducible cause-effect power.

Christof is the author of the books Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist. , The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach, and Biophysics of Computation: Information Processing in Single Neurons. His forthcoming book, Then I am Myself the World, is due out in 2024.

Christof has a sentiocentric moral scope saying that “For the sake of animals, I’m a vegetarian.” Hopefully, as a result of our conversation, he will now be considering veganism. Having been raised Roman Catholic he now has a non-religious, naturalistic worldview.

ChristofKoch.com
Christof at the Allen Institute
Christof on Wikipedia