All of us are passionate about animals and the environment, and want to make a change through our food system. But, activism can be hard when there are not many people at school who share these motivations. We all connected online when we were all in high school, and realized that there needs to be more support for students advocating in high school. So, we created Plant-Based Peers! Hearing from other students who have done similar projects was something we all wished we had when spearheading these campaigns at our schools, so we hope to help you out as much as possible!
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Nancy is an incoming freshman at Stanford, and is passionate about plant-based nutrition and sustainable food systems. She's engaged in various advocacy projects, ranging from lobbying on Capitol Hill, speaking at Indy VegFest about youth advocacy, hosting community educational events, and more. In her free time, Nancy enjoys foraging, drinking matcha lattes, and wandering in local green spaces.
Morgan is a rising sophomore at NYU studying Chemistry and Computer Science, and has been passionate about animal rights since she was 9 years old. She has given speeches to her school, campaigned for a daily vegan cafeteria option, organized a vegan food festival, and spoken at the Animal & Vegan Advocacy Summit. She has also created award-winning short films about veganism and nature. She hopes to work in health/nutrition or the alternative protein space in the future. In her free time, she loves going on hikes with her parents and picnicking on mountaintops!
Marielle is a freshman at Duke University's campus in China, where she is majoring in International Relations and Public Policy. Having lobbied for food and agriculture bills in D.C., worked on plant-based options with LAUSD, and filed a lawsuit against the USDA regarding dairy, Marielle is passionate about tackling animal rights issues in the law and policy field. She hopes to eventually work for the UN on international climate policy in the direction of a global plant-based food system.
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Ezra is a Junior at Brookline High School in Brookline, MA. As founder and president of their school's animal rights club, they helped lead the successful campaign to create Meatless Mondays and guarantee access to vegan options at every meal at all the Public Schools of Brookline: an initiative which was paired with a wide reaching educational campaign. In their other work, they have spearheaded campaigns to ban the sale of fur, the use of animals in circuses, and the sale of animals in pet shops in Brookline. They are an organizer with RAISE Activism, co-chair of the Massachusetts Healthy School Lunch Coalition's Student Steering Committee, and former co-chair of the YSC. In their free time, Ezra loves running and writing poems and short stories.
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Hanna is a Junior at Brookline High School in Massachusetts, where she is a part of the school's animal rights club. She has helped lead animal rights initiatives such as implementing Meatless Mondays in all of Brookline's public schools, educating students on the importance of plant-based eating, and passing two town-wide warrant articles to end the use of wild animals in traveling circuses and the ban the sale of mammals and birds in pet shops in Brookline. She is the former co-chair of the Massachusetts Health School Lunch Coalition's Student Steering Committee and is the Youth Advocacy Coordinator for the organization Massachusetts for Elephants. In the future, Hanna hopes to study ecology and evolutionary biology.