Bio: Featured twice on Oprah and listed by VegNews among the “Top 10 Living Vegetarian Authors,” Victoria has written fourteen books including The Love-Powered Diet, Main Street Vegan, and Age Like a Yogi. She hosts the Main Street Vegan Podcast and directs Main Street Vegan Academy, training and certifying vegan lifestyle coaches since 2012. She led the production team on the 2019 documentary, A Prayer for Compassion, and is producer and co-screenwriter of the feature in development, Miss Liberty, about a cow who escapes a slaughterhouse and the human drama that ensues.

Vegan since the early 1980s, Victoria lost 60 pounds with a WFPB foodstyle and has maintained that over four decades. In 2016, she was voted Peta’s Sexiest Vegan Over 50; she was inducted in 2024 into the Vegan Hall of Fame; and, with her husband William Melton, unanimously won the Homo Ahimsa Award in 2025. Speaking venues include Farm Sanctuary, Holistic Holiday at Sea, National Health Association conferences, Speaking of  Women’s Health, Toyota Women’s Health Conferences, and Vegan Summerfest.

Sample Talks: The Magical MEND Program (meditation, exercise, nourishment, detox); Age Like a Yogi; Attraction Activism and the Good Karma Life; How I Learned to Bypass the Drive-Thru & Fall in Love with Leafy Greens; One-woman show: The Making of a Main Street Vegan