Jasmin Singer is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Our Hen House (www.ourhenhouse.org), a NYCbased nonprofit creating independent media to change the world for animals. She is the co-host – with her wife,
Mariann Sullivan – of the Our Hen House podcast, now in its sixth year, and of the Our Hen House TV show, a
co-production with Brooklyn Independent Media. Jasmin has written for numerous publications, and has
chapters in the anthologies Defiant Daughters: 21 Women on Art, Activism, Animals, and the Sexual Politics of
Meat [Lantern, 2013], Running, Eating, Thinking [Lantern, 2014], and Circles of Compassion [Vegan
Publishers, 2014]. Her own personal memoir about food will be published by Berkley in February, 2016. Jasmin
has appeared on The Dr. Oz Show, HuffPo Live, and can be seen in the award-winning documentaries
Vegucated and The Ghosts in Our Machine. She is the former campaigns manager for Farm Sanctuary, and a
former writer for VegNews Magazine, a publication that named her one of twenty standout stars of the animal
rights movement. Her workshops have been presented at conferences around the globe, and she has been
featured in media outlets such as CNN and The Atlantic. Prior to her animal activist career, Jasmin was an actoreducator with an AIDS-awareness theatre company.
Mariann Sullivan is the Co-Founder and Program Director of of Our Hen House (www.ourhenhouse.org), a
NYC-based nonprofit creating independent media to change the world for animals. She is the co-host – with her
wife, Jasmin Singer – of the Our Hen House podcast, now in its sixth year, and of the Our Hen House TV show,
a co-production with Brooklyn Independent Media. Mariann is also a lawyer and an adjunct professor of animal
law, currently at Columbia Law School and Cardozo Law School. She found her way into animal law through
the Committee on Legal Issues Pertaining to Animals of the New York City Bar Association and eventually
served as chair of that committee. She is also the former chair of the American Bar Association’s Tort Trial
Insurance Practice Section’s Animal Law Committee. With David Wolfson, she is the author of a trilogy of
articles on farmed animals and the law: “Foxes in the Henhouse: Animals Agribusiness and the Law, A Modern
American Fable” in Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions; “What’s Good for the Goose… The
Supreme Court of Israel, Foie Gras, and the Future of Farmed Animals in the United States,” in the 2007
volume of the Duke Journal of Law and Contemporary Problems; and “If it Looks Like a Duck: New Jersey,
The Regulation of Common Farming Practices, and the Meaning of ‘Humane,’” in Animal Law and the Courts.
Mariann is also the author of “The Animal Welfare Act: What’s That?” which was published in the New York
State Bar Association Journal. She has spoken at various conferences and animal law related events throughout
the country, as well as Animal Rights Africa’s Animal Law Review Consultation Workshop in Johannesburg.
Mariann has served on the board of directors of Farm Sanctuary and The Animals Agenda, and currently serves
on the board of Animal Welfare Trust. She was a visiting professor of animal law at Lewis & Clark Law
School’s Center for Animal Law Studies in the Fall 2012 semester, and is a former adjunct professor of animal
law at Brooklyn Law School and NYU Law School.