Sylvia Arvella Tribble

NRC, EWU

Paul Waldau

American Academy of Religion, American Bar Association

Religion, Law, Anthropology, Policy Studies, Philosophy, Education

Dr. Waldau is Director of the Center for Animals and Public Policy at Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine, which includes the country's most advanced graduate program in the study of nonhuman animals, policy, and cultural values. Paul has a Doctor of Philosophy degree from University of Oxford. He also has a Juris Doctor degree from UCLA Law School and a Master's Degree from Stanford University in Religious Studies. He is the author and editor of several books—The Specter of Speciesism: Buddhist and Christian Views of Animals published by Oxford University Press in 2001, and the forthcoming A Communion of Subjects: Animals in Religion, Science, and Ethics to be published by Columbia University Press. He publishes widely, a recent example of which is the article in the prestigious Encyclopedia of Religion on 'Animals.' Paul teaches ethics courses at the veterinary school, and currently is teaching the 'animal law' course at Harvard Law School. He is also the Co-chair of the Animals and Religion Consultation at the American Academy of Religion, and the founder and president of the Religion and Animals Institute.

Janet Swenson

NCTE, CEE, CCCC, NWP, IWCA

National Technology Leadership Consortium, National Writing Project Lead Technology Sites

Writing/Rhetoric, English Education, Civic Engagement

Janet Swenson is director of the Michigan State University Writing Center and Red Cedar Writing Project, MSU's site of the National Writing Project.