About

Why care?

I’ve always been troubled by stories of injustice. The first cause I took up was at age 10 after a whale-watching trip with my family out of Provincetown, Massachusetts. That day, I fell in love with the majesty of the humpbacks. I learned too that these magnificent beings were being killed legally. No matter the reason—whether money, meat or bloodsport—I knew it had to stop.

I began speaking out against the whaling industry and the laws that allowed it. I wrote a story inspired by the true tale of a slaughtered pregnant whale. I wore my Greenpeace shirt proudly to school. “Save the Whales” was the movement that unveiled my passion for protecting animals. Since then, I have been compelled to be a voice for animals, people and ecosystems that are exploited or abused.

Mutuality is the principle that we are all connected as one. As the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” There is no limit to the causes we can champion because a fight for one of us is a fight for all of us.