I’ve interned with a few animal protection groups over the years. You can learn more about their important work below:

Farm Sanctuary

Through rescue, education, and advocacy, Farm Sanctuary offers safe and permanent homes to abused farmed animals. Below are some of the friends I made there.

Despite being stereotyped as dirty and smelly, pigs much prefer to sleep on clean straw. When they’re happy, they smell exactly like maple syrup. On factory farms, they’re confined to cages barely larger than their bodies, in which they’re unable to turn around or escape their own waste.

Despite being stereotyped as dirty and smelly, pigs much prefer to sleep on clean straw. When they’re happy, they smell like maple syrup. On factory farms, they’re confined to pens barely larger than their bodies, in which they’re unable to turn around or avoid their own waste.

 
 
This lamb came to the sanctuary after she was abandoned by a farmer. She was unable to use her hind legs, so we gave her daily baths to keep her fleece clean.

This lamb came to the sanctuary after she was injured and consequently abandoned by a farmer. She was unable to use her hind legs, so we gave her daily baths to keep her fleece clean and physical therapy to help her learn to walk with a wheelchair.

Emma was hit by a car when she was a calf. As a “meat” breed, this made her useless to the farmer, because downed animals can’t be sold for meat. The farmer left her on the side of the road to die. Fortunately, she was rescued, but only after she developed an infection so severe that she lost the use of her back legs.

Emma was injured as a calf. As a “meat” breed, this made her useless to the farmer, because downed animals can’t be sold for meat. Fortunately, she was rescued, but only after she developed an infection so severe that she lost one of her hind legs.

 
Turkeys like Pamela are affectionate and intelligent. Despite being rescued from a factory farm—where workers sliced off half her beak using a hot blade and without any pain relief—Pamela still enjoys the company of humans.

Turkeys like Pamela are affectionate and intelligent. Despite being rescued from a factory farm—where workers sliced off half of her beak using a hot blade and without any pain relief—Pamela still enjoys the company of humans.

The Humane League

Beginning in 2005 as a small grassroots movement, THL’s pressure campaigns now work to hold corporations accountable to making meaningful welfare changes for animals used for food.

Here, we’re leafletting for the I’m Not Lovin’ It campaign.

Here, we’re leafletting for the I’m Not Lovin’ It campaign.

We wrote letters to corporate officials, urging them to improve welfare standards for chickens in their supply chain.

We wrote letters to corporate officials at McDonald’s, urging them to improve welfare standards for chickens in their supply chain.

 
 
I organized this demonstration outside the McDonald’s World Cup viewing party in NYC. (We snuck in and crashed the event with a banner, too, but there are no photos of that!)

I organized this demonstration outside the 2018 McDonald’s World Cup viewing party in NYC.

March to Close All Slaughterhouses

This annual march promotes an abolitionist approach to animal rights, urging an immediate end to all slaughterhouses. Approximately 80 billion land animals are slaughtered for food each year.

NYC, 2018

NYC, 2018

 
 
NYC, 2018

NYC, 2018