Bio: Hope Bohanec has been active in animal protection and environmental activism for 30 years and has published the book The Ultimate Betrayal: Is There Happy Meat? She is Executive Director of Compassionate Living and host of the Hope for the Animals Podcast. Hope co-founded the Humane Hoax Project, the Ahimsa Living Project, and has organized hundreds of online and in-person events including the Humane Hoax Online Conference, the Humane Hoax Chicken Webinar, and the Sonoma County VegFest. Over the last three decades, Hope has worked for the national nonprofits United Poultry Concerns and In Defense of Animals and contributed chapters to two anthologies.

Sample Talks: The Humane Hoax: Cage-Free, Free-Range, Humane…What Do the Labels Really Mean?; Greenwashing Our Food: Sustainable Labels Won’t Save the Planet; Sentience in the Sea: Fish Emotion, Cognition, Personalities, and Play; Chickens: Exploitation of the Innocent; Ahimsa, Animal Advocacy, and Veganism / Veganism and the Dharma Religions; Effective Online Advocacy: Online Etiquette for Activists; When Life Hands You a Pandemic, Learn to Podcast!