I am the author of Striking at the Roots: A Practical Guide to Animal Activism, a guide to empowering people to get active for animals around the world. I gave up meat after an encounter with one of India’s many cows in 1992, then went vegan a decade later. In addition to volunteering for Food Empowerment Project, which works on a variety of vegan-related food-justice issues, I write for the Animal Legal Defense Fund, which uses the legal system to advance the interests of animals, and volunteer with SaveABunny, which works with San Francisco Bay Area animal shelters to find loving homes for rabbits. Beginning in 2004, I served as a contributing writer for Satya  until the magazine ceased publication in 2007, and am a frequent contributor to VegNews magazine. My writing has also appeared in Vegan’s Daily Companion by Colleen Patrick-Goudreau (Quarry Books), Stories to Live By: Wisdom to Help You Make the Most of Every Day (Travelers’ Tales) and The Best Travel Writing 2005: True Stories from Around the World (Travelers’ Tales), as well as Vegan Voice, Herbivore, Hinduism Today, Utne.com and newspapers across the United States. I like to think I’m working on a second book.