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Our Hen House: Vegan & Animal Rights Movement | Stories from the Frontlines of Animal Liberation

Episode 570: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Animal Rights ft. Michelle Rojas-Soto

Our Hen House: Vegan & Animal Rights Movement | Stories from the Frontlines of Animal Liberation

Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan

Documentary, Education, News, News Commentary, Society & Culture, Self-improvement

4.9579 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2020

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

This week’s episode features a riveting interview with Michelle Rojas-Soto that was originally recorded at the Farmed Animal Conference E-summit (FACES) earlier this year. Michelle is the managing director at Encompass, a non-profit that supports animal advocates of the global majority and provides diversity, equity, and inclusion consulting to farmed animal protection organizations. She is a long-time advocate for racial justice,…

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0:00.0

Welcome to Our Head House.

0:08.2

This is Marianne Sullivan.

0:09.5

And this is Jasmine Singer.

0:11.2

I'm so thrilled that you joined us this week.

0:13.0

I think you're really going to love this interview.

0:15.5

Jasmine will be speaking with Michelle Rojas Soto.

0:18.8

And she is the managing director at Encompass.

0:21.5

And the interview was actually recorded at the Farmed Animal Conference E Summit,

0:26.5

which happened a while back, not too long ago.

0:29.5

It was put on by Animal Place, and I think in coordination with some others.

0:33.2

And one of the presentations there was a conversation between Michelle and Jasmine about equity,

0:39.7

or sadly, sometimes the lack thereof within the animal rights movement.

0:44.0

It's a great conversation. I think you're really going to enjoy it.

0:47.1

And this was produced, this segment and the entire Faces conference was produced by the plant-based network,

0:53.9

which is a really cool app that you can get for your streaming device.

1:00.0

So you could watch a totally vegan TV network.

1:02.5

It's super cool.

1:03.8

And I was really, really moved by my conversation with Michelle.

1:07.9

And so it's been on my mind.

1:09.3

And I finally said, can we just put it on the Arana House

1:12.3

podcast? And everyone gave their permission. So I'm excited to share that with you. And the bonus

1:18.7

segment this week is is a little bit different than normal. I know I've been talking about my

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