Kimberly Carroll, Mandi Howard, Eric Vautour, Shawna Gray

Kimberly Carroll is a coach for changemakers, a campaigns strategist with Animal Justice and director of the Animal Justice Academy, and a director with the Toronto Vegetarian Food Bank. She co-created the original “Why love one but eat the other?” transit ad campaign in Canada and was one of the founders of Mercy For Animals Canada — helping bring the first undercover farmed animal investigations to television. As a coach, Kimberly helps activists, social entrepreneurs, and mission-driven leaders who want to make a bigger difference in the world with the inner shifts, high-performance habits, and strategies to take their important work to the next level. She’s helped empower thousands of animal advocates and counselled those in high-stress activist positions like undercover investigators. Kimberly endeavours to use her privilege and platform to amplify the voices of Indigenous and other marginalized peoples.

Mandi Howard. 2 spirit, sovereignty seeker, animal and Indigenous rights activist. So many ways to talk about who I am. The things the world feels are accomplishments vs things I cannot believe I’ve achieved. Started my work in rescue as a teenager, with my differently abled mother, trying to save the world. My work with non humans is so intimate and so personal I don’t speak about it much. Every fur kid who has thrived is my reward. I became an emergency room nurse, adding skills to my rescue work  I then became an indigenous full spectrum doula, adding radical love and care and thought into my nursing care. I learned to drum and sing that gave me voice to advocate for the land, the water, the peoples, the animals. Every turn in my life has added kore and more to the amazing heart work I’ve been gifted to be part of in this journey.