Miko Brown is the Director of Social Justice Initiatives at Farm Sanctuary.  This deep and reflective conversation touches on Miko’s own personal activist trajectory, doing aliveness in community, and the focusing practice that grounds and orients Miko’s work.

The episode is filled with insights that can help us all act with more intention.

Neda Moridpour and S.A. Bachman are the founders of Louder Than Words, a cross-cultural, intergenerational art collective that targets sexual assault, domestic violence, LGBTQ equality, animal liberation, and mass incarceration.

Professor Dany Celermajer is a director of the Sydney Environment Institute and the Multi Species Justice Project and the author of Summertime: Reflections on a Vanishing Future. She joined pattrice for a deeply moving discussion about her experiences of the Australian bushfires of 2019, which devastated animal life and ecosystems in ways that are becoming all-too familiar as climate catastrophe changes the world around all of us.

You can read more from Dany here:

https://www.abc.net.au/religion/danielle-celermajer-learning-to-live-in-jimmy%E2%80%99s-world/12000232

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/feb/07/who-killed-summertime-how-do-we-trace-the-complex-roots-of-responsibility

Brenda Sanders is a founder of Afro-Vegan Society and Greener Kitchen. She is an organizer of Vegan Soul Fest, a 3-day music and vegan food festival in Baltimore, coming up August 19-21, 2022.

pattrice jones talks with Christopher Sebastian about queering animal liberation, toxic masculinity, and so much more.

Lori Gruen is the author of Ethics and Animals and co-editor of Ecofeminism.