Greetings, everyone. This is Jasmine Singer, the executive director, co-founder and co-host of Our Hen House, a media hub producing podcasts that change the world for animals.

I am so pleased to welcome you to the third

episode of the four-part audio series of the book, Anti-Racism and Animal Advocacy, Igniting Cultural

Transformation. It was a true honor to be the editor of this new anthology published by Lantern Media, and a true joy

to work alongside In Compass, in particular, Ariana Shperdy and Michelle Rojasoto on bringing this book

to creation. Anti-racism in animal advocacy igniting cultural transformation is a collection of

essays written by farmed animal protection

advocates who are committed to exploring and prioritizing racial equity as we work to create a more

just animal protection movement. We wish to document our stories and processes in an exploratory

space from which we can grow

and use our words to hold ourselves and our peers accountable, ultimately creating new paths

forward.

Those of us who contributed to this anthology were attendees of Encompasses two 2020 Racial Equity

Institutes. Encompass, the nonprofit that organized

the institutes aims to make the farmed animal protection space more effective by working with

white folks to operationalize racial equity, as well as by working with individual advocates of

the global majority to cultivate our individual and our

collective leadership. This anthology was originally an online collaboration between Encompass,

Our Henhouse, and Sensient Media. And it was titled Incompass Essays Pursuing Racial Equity in Animal

Advocacy.

For citations of any of these essays, please visit the online version found at sentientmedia.org.

Sensient Media is a robust digital platform that publishes thoughtful articles about animal agriculture and its impact on the world. You can purchase the

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