Our Team

  • Zoe graduated from New York University’s Animal Studies master’s program in 2022, where her studies and thesis focused on farmed animal welfare law and policy. She is passionate about working to improve the lives of the animals currently trapped in a myriad of cruel and exploitative industries, while striving to create a future that sees all animals liberated from this exploitation. Zoe is particularly interested in exploring legal and public policy-based avenues and utilizing her research background to inform her work in this space.

    When she’s not working to further these goals, Zoe loves exploring her new home of NYC with her partner and their foster-failed elderly pit bull, Cassie.  

Research & Operations Associate

  • Emily graduated from Lewis & Clark Law School in 2024 with certificates in Animal Law and Environmental & Natural Resources Law. She pursued a legal career specifically to advocate for animals. Her primary focus and passion is challenging the industrial animal agriculture industry, a seed that was planted during her undergraduate coursework in Sociology and Environmental & Sustainability Studies at Vanderbilt University.

    Emily is active in the American Bar Association’s TIPS Animal Law Committee, including by serving as Co-Chair of its Animals in Agriculture subcommittee. She is also a member of the New York City Bar Association’s Animal Law Committee and the New York City Environmental Law Leadership Institute. During law school, Emily served on the editorial board of the Animal Law Review and was involved in Lewis & Clark's Animal Legal Defense Fund student chapter. 

    In her free time, Emily enjoys spending time with her rescue cat Hoku, reading fantasy, watching documentaries, seeing live music, thrifting, and cross-stitching. 


Staff Attorney

  • Jenny Hunter is a skilled communications and operations professional with more than 20 years of experience spanning internal, external, and executive communications as well as operations. She has a proven track record of establishing global communications, advocacy, and thought leadership programs; crafting and efficiently executing strategic operational initiatives; and problem solving. She is skilled at connecting the dots and connecting with people to tell a bigger story.

    Currently, Jenny is the Executive Administrator at Dusty Robotics, which builds tools for the modern construction workforce. In this role, she works closely with the CEO, CTO and leadership team to ensure the smooth day-to-day operation of the company and of the executive suite.

    Prior to joining Dusty, Jenny was the director of communications and publicity at Animal Outlook, an animal rights non-profit organization whose mission is to change the world for animals through undercover investigations, legal advocacy, corporate engagement, and vegan outreach. Before that, she drove communications and thought leadership campaigns for multiple IBM business units for 17 years.

    Jenny lives in Boise, ID with her husband Jon on five acres with their rescued dogs, cats, horses, alpacas, goats, chickens, ducks, geese, and one rabbit.

Advisory Committee

  • Will Lowrey has engaged in numerous lawsuits, as well as criminal and administrative enforcement actions against the government, industrial agriculture, and research laboratories, including cases involving federal slaughter laws, public records, false advertising, public nuisance, animal cruelty, and others. Will has taught Animal Law at multiple law schools across the country.

    Previously, Will spent several years as Legal Counsel for another national nonprofit farmed animal protection organization, where he divided his time between civil litigation and undercover investigations. Before law school, Will worked as a senior process engineer at a large financial corporation and in his free time, helped run several non-profits focused on a variety of animal issues, including animal research, activism, animal fighting, and providing animal welfare support to Native American reservations.

Board of Directors & Legal Counsel

  • Lindsey Soffes serves as the Program Officer for Rise for Animals, an animal rights organization that advocates for the abolition of animal experimentation. Prior to joining Rise, she directed a high-volume, municipal animal shelter that, during her tenure, adopted and adhered to a no-kill ideology; undertook community engagement efforts and animal cruelty investigations for a farmed and companion animal sanctuary; and championed human civil rights as a practicing attorney. Lindsey holds a Certificate in Nonprofit Management from the University of Washington, a Graduate Certificate in Animal Policy and Advocacy from Humane Society University, a Humane Investigator certificate from the University of Missouri, and a law degree from William & Mary School of Law.

    Animal Partisan’s mission of challenging animal exploitation through creative and forward-thinking legal advocacy resonates both with Lindsey’s personal adherence to ethical veganism and her professional experiences in animal protection, which repeatedly highlighted the current legal paradigm’s stark and prejudiced discounting of all non-human interests in favor of any human interests. She is proud to serve on Animal Partisan’s Board of Directors and is grateful for the opportunity to help reimagine the legal system as a potent tool for change and the harbinger of a more just, more peaceful world for all.

Board of Directors

  • Erin Sutherland is an experienced advocate with expertise in regulatory, legislative, and legal affairs and government transparency. Erin is currently the Policy & Program Director/Counsel for the Pipeline Safety Trust. Previously, Erin worked as staff attorney for the farm animal program at the Animal Welfare Institute, where she focused on animal transport, deceptive marketing practices for animal products, on-farm treatment and slaughter. Prior to her time at AWI, Erin clerked at the public interest law firm Meyer, Glitzenstein & Eubanks. Erin graduated from North Carolina State University with a degree in Natural Resources Policy and Administration, and obtained a J.D. from Lewis & Clark Law School with a certificate in Environmental, Natural Resources, and Energy Law. In her free time, Erin enjoys gardening, cooking, skiing, and hiking with her husband and dog Penny.

Advisory Committee

  • Erin Wing is currently serving as the Deputy Director of Investigations at Animal Outlook and previously worked as an undercover investigator. Over the course of 2 years, she went on to complete 4 investigations in the dairy, chicken and aquaculture industries, including the first-ever undercover expose of salmon aquaculture in the U.S.

    Erin's investigations and her advocacy work shed light on the animal exploitation that occurs on farms in the animal agriculture system. She sincerely shares personal accounts from her compelling background to illustrate the dangers speciesism poses to all sentient beings on the planet. Her work has been featured in The Washington Post, The Guardian and The New York Times.

    Erin lives in Portland, Oregon with her partner and two cats, Nugget and Onion. In her free time, she volunteers at Wildwood Farm Sanctuary and Preserve in Newberg, Oregon.

Board of Directors

  • Nikita Yogeshwarun is an advocate for human and animal rights. She received a B.A. from Duke University and J.D. from Berkeley Law where she founded the Animal Law and Advocacy Project, Berkeley’s first legal clinic dedicated to animal law, and served as president of Animal Law Society.

    Nikita has previous experience as a law clerk at the Center for Biological Diversity, the Humane Society Legislative Fund, and the United Nations IRMCT in The Hague. She also interned at the Jane Goodall Institute Research Center.

    Nikita is a member of the Animal Legal Defense Fund Pro Bono Network, the Foie Gras Coalition, and serves as an advisor to Legal Impact for Chickens. She has received several awards for her pro bono service.

Advisory Committee