With nearly two decades of experience editing magazines and books, Sherri Dugger now puts her media and public relations experience to work in the agriculture field. Dugger has served as executive director of both Women, Food and Agriculture Network and Indiana Farmers Union and as a Midwest outreach consultant for Earth justice and a policy and communications consultant for American Grassfed Association. She co-chairs a national coalition, U.S. Farmers and Ranchers for a Green New Deal. An advocate for local and regional food systems, environmental sustainability, humane animal agriculture, and diversified family farming, Read More

As the granddaughter of Terry Spence and neighbor of a massive hog operation, Ashlen has been immersed in the issues of factory farming from the age of five. She joins the SRAP team now, 20 years later, to lend her passion to the sustainable agriculture movement. Ashlen graduated with a BSBA from the University of Central Missouri and has worked as the Director of Fundraising and Development for the Central Missouri Christian Campus House. While in Warrensburg, she served alongside local nonprofits as the secretary for Johnson County Cares and helped organize various community events for people in poverty and for environmental sustainability. Read More

Scott owns a 130-year-old family farm along Willow Branch in northern Missouri, where he was raised. In 1994, Scott was confronted with the environmental, economic, and social impacts of animal factories when an 80,000-head hog factory, now owned by WH Group Limited, moved in next door. WH Group Limited, an international meat conglomerate, now controls 25% of all U.S. pork production. Scott is a founding captain of Missouri Stream Team #714, a volunteer water quality monitoring group composed of local family farmers. The group has garnered multiple state awards for leadership, stewardship, public education, and outstanding service.

Tina grew up in Utah and though she is not a farmer herself, she comes from a long line of farmers and is an animal lover at heart. While earning her degree from  Weber State University, she became involved with Illinois Citizens for Clean Air and Water (ICCAW), where she conducted water monitoring training with people living in rural communities near CAFOs. Her experiences on the ground led her to focus much of her undergraduate work and research on CAFOs as a public health problem. She later joined SRAP, where she completed her internship on health departments and their involvement with the public health impacts of CAFOs. Outside of work, Read More

Katie grew up in a small rural Illinois town. She attended college in Northern Wisconsin where she majored in Environmental Studies and Sustainable Community Development. She has spent many hours volunteering and learning on small-scale family farms throughout the Midwest. In 2013, Katie became an AmeriCorps VISTA service member, which brought her to Oregon to work with a regional food bank. There she helped operate a small urban farm with local teens.

Lynn emerged as a leading voice calling on state and federal authorities to hold livestock factory farms accountable to water and air quality laws. With her husband, she farms 300-acres of corn and soybeans in  Lenawee  County, Michigan within 10 miles of 12  CAFOs. As a result of her work to stop pollution from factory farms and to hold state and federal agencies accountable to enforcing laws, Lynn won the 2010 Goldman Environmental Prize – the environmental equivalent of the Nobel Prize. When Lynn isn’t testing water downstream of factory farms, she enjoys spending quality time with her grandchildren. Read more about Lynn Henning’s Goldman Prize.

Karen lives on a fifth-generation family farm in west central Illinois. She is a graduate of Illinois State University and has a Bachelor's degree in Education. She is a Founder and past President of Families Against Rural Messes (FARM), a grassroots group that organized when industrial livestock factories targeted Illinois for expansion. She is also Co-Founder of Illinois Citizens for Clean Air and Water. Karen was appointed by an Illinois House Representative to be a member of the Illinois House/Senate Joint Livestock Advisory Committee in 1997.  She was also on the Board of Directors of the Illinois Stewardship Alliance from 1997 to 2004 and was named "Conservationist of the Year" Read More

Donald Hutchinson grew up in rural southwest Virginia. For more than 20 years, he has been involved with environmental, animal welfare, and racial justice groups in various capacities, from organizing fundraising events to leading outreach efforts around racial justice issues. Donald has a BA in Geography and geographic information systems (GIS). In his current studies, he is exploring new ways to utilize GIS for social and environmental justice. While in graduate school at the University of Illinois, Donald worked with the Randolph Street Community Garden as part of a collaboration with the Urban Planning department. Read More

In addition to her consulting work with SRAP, Maria is Executive Director and a founding member of Peach Bottom Concerned Citizens Group. She has worked for years to educate people about and advocate for socially responsible agriculture through forums, films, community events, and even after-school programs for children. Maria has been instrumental in working with communities to fight the expansion of industrial animal facilities throughout Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and New York. She is committed to keeping independent farmers viable, while striving to preserve our natural resources and rural heritage for future generations.

Chris has been involved in production agriculture for 40 years. He maintains a 30-sow Berkshire herd on his farm near Clear Lake, Iowa. When Chris began farming, he grew corn and soybeans on 400 acres. But the farm depression of the 1980s forced changes in his family's approach to farming and kindled his desire to become an advocate for family farmers. Chris is the past immediate President of the Iowa Farmers Union and is currently on the Farmers Union Board. He is also a board member of the Organization for Competitive Markets, Vice President of the Iowa Citizens Action Network, and a Producer Board Member of the Iowa Center of Agricultural Health and Safety. Read More

Julie is a Colorado native and serves as SRAP's Development Coordinator. Julie has a background in international studies, graduating with a B.A. in International Studies from the University of Colorado at Denver. Julie has experience working in the legal field, serving as a Judicial Assistant for a district court judge. Julie also has experience living and working abroad, having served as an intern for the State Department in Brussels, Belgium, and having worked as an English teacher in Shanghai, China. From December 2016-March 2017, Julie lived and worked as a Ranch volunteer at an intentional community in Northern California. Read More

Craig is a former contract chicken grower for poultry giant Perdue. He made headlines when he teamed up with Compassion in World Farming USA to expose animal issues rampant throughout the company's operations. Craig has been outspoken about the power of giant meat companies, giving testimony on Capitol Hill and sharing his story on the Farm Aid stage with musicians Dave Matthews, John Mellencamp, Neil Young, and Willie Nelson. Craig's story also appeared in the New York Times and on Tonight with John Oliver. Craig was named Whistleblower Insider's "2015 Whistleblower of the Year."

Monica Richardson Brooks is a community leader who organizes against the expansion of mega-poultry complexes on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Monica cofounded the citizens group Concerned Citizens Against Industrial CAFOs, which stopped the siting of what would have been the largest-ever poultry complex in Maryland. Personally, she is a pastor’s wife, mother, business owner, and Spanish teacher. While she leads a full life, she will never be too busy to fight for environmental and social justice. Monica is passionate about empowering and educating her children and the community she loves about the importance of civic engagement.

Jessica Culpepper is Director of Public Justice’s Food Project, which uses the courts to transform industrial farm animal production into a food system that is just, transparent, and accountable to people, not profit. Before joining Public Justice, Jessica was a Barker Fellow and Staff Attorney at the Humane Society of the United States in the Farm Animal Welfare Division. She is a graduate of Georgetown Law, where she focused her studies on the intersection between environmental law and critical race theory.

Before her career as an attorney, Jessica worked on vegetable Read More

Kim Ferraro is the Senior Staff Attorney with Indiana-based Hoosier Environmental Council (HEC). In that role, Kim has achieved several legal victories that have helped communities impacted by industrial pollution, factory farms, reckless development, and coal ash contamination. She recently argued before the Indiana Supreme Court challenging the constitutionality of the State’s unjust “Right to Farm” law, which lower courts have held bar any relief for families whose lives have been devastated by factory farms. She has also successfully led coalitions to defeat several legislative efforts that would have given the corporate livestock industry Read More

Robert S. Lawrence, MD is the Center for a Livable Future Professor Emeritus at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the founding director of the Center for a Livable Future (1996-2015), which supports research and develops policies related to the public health impacts of industrial food animal production, improving food security, fulfilling the right to food, and adopting healthier diets.

A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, he trained in internal medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Read More

Don Stull is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Kansas, where he taught from 1975 to 2015. Don holds a doctorate in anthropology from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a master’s in public health from the University of California, Berkeley. For the past three decades his research and writing have focused on the meat and poultry industry in North America; rural industrialization and rapid-growth communities; industrial agriculture’s impact on farmers, processing workers, and rural communities; and food. Since 1998 he has studied agricultural transformation in Western Kentucky, where he is half-owner of a grain farm that has been in his family Read More