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Rev.
Dr. Beth
Johnson
is a Unitarian Universalist minister
serving a congregation in Vista
California. She is president-elect of
Unitarian
Universalists for the Ethical Treatment
of
Animals,
recently renamed Unitarian Universalist
Animal Ministry. She is a graduate of
Claremont School of Theology where she
received her Master of Divinity and her
Doctor of Ministry. Her doctoral
project, titled Transforming
Conversations – the Voices of
Animals in the Interdependent Web
uses an ecofeminst, process perspective
to explore human caused suffering of
individual animals. Beth is interested
in how the concept of the
interdependent web has functioned, in
some cases, to mute the voices of
individual animals.
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Brianne
Donaldson
is
a 2nd year doctoral student in the
Philosophy of Religion at Claremont
Graduate University, with an emphasis
on Process Studies, Animal Ethics and
the Neurobiology of Empathy. She is
interested in how a new paradigm for
the human-animal relationship can
transform power structures in Western
society. Brianne is an Associate
Fellow with the Oxford Centre for
Animal Ethics and is the Southern
California Outreach Coordinator for
Vegan
Outreach,
an international non-profit farm animal
welfare organization that distributes
booklets about factory farming and
compassionate eating at campuses and
public events around the
world.
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Ronald
Farmer
is
the Irvin C. and Edy Chapman Dean of
the Wallace All Faiths Chapel and
Associate Professor of Religious
Studies at Chapman University. He is an
active member of the Society of
Biblical Literature, the Center for
Process Studies, and the Process&
Faith Program. In addition to numerous
publications in the fields of
hermeneutics and biblical studies, he
has written several articles and one
novel (Awakening)
dealing with animal compassion. His
writings focus on educating the public
about factory farming. Ron’s
family consists of three cats, who live
with his wife, Patricia, and him, and
one pig, who lives at the Farm
Sanctuary.
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Shelley
Harrison
teaches
law, logic, writing and reading. Having
received a B.A. at Stanford and J.D. at
UVA, he is a licensed attorney and
award-winning inventor with patented
work in fields such as computer
hardware, internet software, and
physical therapy. Shelley serves as a
strategist for The
Humane
Party,
the US's first political party whose
platform includes animal rights and
whose candidates must be vegan, and as
an editor for Cruelty-Free,
a site devoted to the defense and
freedom of animals. He is a member of
Bel Air Presbyterian Church.
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Zandra
Wagoner
is
the Assistant Dean of Undergraduate
Programs and Assistant Professor of
Religion at the University of La Verne.
She is one of the co-authors of
A
Religious Proclamation for Animal
Compassion,
a document composed by religious
leaders from 22 different traditions
and presented at the nation’s
capital in 2007. In 2008, she was part
of a consulting team for Best Friends
Animal Sanctuary’s Animals and
Religion Program. Her current research
is focused on the unique relationships
being forged between animal advocacy
organizations and religious
communities. Zandra has developed and
taught a course on animals and
religion, called “Between Species:
Humans, Animals and Religion.” She
is also an ordained minister in the
Church of the Brethren.
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