Hillary Rettig is an entrepreneur, business coach, and animal activist who has assisted hundreds of economically-disadvantaged persons in starting and growing businesses and nonprofit agencies of all kinds.   Her work in this area has been recognized nationally by the Association of Enterprise Opportunity and locally by the City of Boston's Department of Neighborhood Development. Hillary is currently writing a book entitled How Not to Burn Out:   Building a Sustainable Activist Career , which will be published by Lantern Books in Fall, 2005.   As a student at Cornell University, she worked in the Campus Conference Office, where she helped organize hundreds of conferences that were held on campus.   She holds a B.S. from Cornell, has traveled widely, and currently resides in Duxbury, MA, outside of Boston, with her husband, four foster children originally from Sudan, East Africa, and four dogs.

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Wendy Scher is a lifelong animal rights and environmental activist (as well as musician). Her first claim to fame came at age 11, when her illustration against hunting was published in the kids' animal rights publication "Otterwise". At age 13, she presented her shul's first bat mitzvah about animal rights. At the College of New Jersey, she was heavily involved in the campus animal rights organization, including president in her junior and senior years. Her involvement with the Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC) starting in '99 furthered her environmental activism, booking many speakers and initiating a successful campaign to switch the campus to recycled paper. She also started working with the Activism Center at Wetlands Preserve in 2000, which has influenced her social justice and multi-issue work in the years since. She was a founding member of the Progressive Student Alliance and in her last semester started a chapter of Food Not Bombs in Trenton. Her senior practicum for her communications major was a film about the effects of overconsumption on animals and our environment. Since graduating college, her main commitments have been with Wetlands - most recently its Freegan.info project - and GARC.

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Patrick Tyrrell is an animal activist and student from Lawrence, Kansas, where he is studying philosophy and environmental science at the University of Kansas. Patrick is an active member of Animal Outreach of Kansas (AOK)--the state's leading animal rights organization, and president of Animal Outreach of Kansas University, AOK's student branch. He is the primary organizer of statewide KFC demonstrations; has organized local actions for numerous national campaigns such as Primate Liberation Week and Fur-Free Friday; and is also highly involved in publicity and other organizing for Kansas Mutual Aid, a radical anti-oppression group. Aside from GARC, Patrick is currently working on vegLawrence, a local veg*n restaurant guide. He is also coordinating the Great Plains Animal Activist Collective.

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Adam Weissman is a collective member of the Activism Center at Wetlands Preserve, a volunteer-run activist organization working to build alliances between movements for human, earth, and animal liberation, while actively campaigning in each of these areas.  Current projects include Freegan.info, which works to expose waste, over-consumption, and destructive realities behind consumer goods; Greening the Comics Industry, an effort to shift the comic book industry to the use of recycled paper, Ducksave, a city-wide coalition of animal rights groups working to ban the cruel delicacy, foie gras; and the NYC Peoples Referendum on Free Trade, a diverse alliance of interest groups opposed to free trade agreements that jeopardize animal, labor, and environmental protections.Previously, Adam founded four campus animal and environmental advocacy organizations; launched a regional network of student animal advocacy groups; served on the National Council of the War Resisters League; founded and served as president of the League of Humane Voters of New York City; worked as a paid organizer for environmental groups Rainforest Action Network, ForestEthics, and the Wetlands Environmental and Social Justice Activism Center; and served on the steering committee of the Global Sweatshop Coalition, a city-wide alliance of labor solidarity organizations.  His writings have been published in journals including Satya, Earth First! Journal, No Compromise, How On Earth! , Freedom Voice , and Animals Voice.  He is frequently interviewed by local, national, and international media outlets, including Fox News Channel, Inside Edition, Fox News Radio, The New York Times, Associated Press TV, Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio, and ABC World News Now.

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Ethan Wolf has been organizing for animal rights and environmental causes for close to a decade.    He is currently a third year law student at University of the District of Columbia - David A. Clarke School of Law and will graduate in the spring.   He has organized grassroots anti-fur campaigns against department stores, and anti-animal experimentation campaigns against universities and animal-testing corporations, and currently works on an international grassroots animal rights magazine.   Ethan spent the last semester representing students in special education law under an attorney-supervisor.  He has interned in Governments Affairs at the Humane Society of the United States (2003) and the Legal Department of Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (2004).

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