Dr. Sailesh Rao, Ph.D
September 8, 2024
Saving Our Planet — A Grandfather’s Pinky Promise
Dr. Rao is the Founder and Executive Director of Climate Healers at ClimateHealers.org. He is also a Human, Earth, and Animal Liberation (HEAL) activist, husband, dad, and since 2010, a star-struck grandfather. He has promised his granddaughter, Kimaya, that the world will be largely Vegan before she turns 16 in 2026 so that people will stop eating her relatives, the animals. He has faith that humanity will transform to keep his pinky promise to Kimaya, not just for ethical reasons, but also out of sheer ecological necessity. He has created a Climate Bathtub model to help humanity understand the systems solution space for reversing climate change and enabling a thriving planet.
Dr. Rao is an environmentalist by occupation and a systems engineer by profession, with a Ph.D. from the Information Systems Laboratory (ISL), Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA in 1986. He invented the protocol for transforming early analog internet connections into more robust digital connections while accelerating their speed ten-fold. Still today, any data accessed on the internet is likely passed through a device implementing this protocol.
Clare Mann, Vegan Psychologist
May 19, 2024
How to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life
Clare Mann, a member of Vegan Seniors Unite (VSU) has been vegan for 16 years. She is a vegan psychologist, existential psychotherapist, author of many books and programs, and communications trainer. She originally trained as an organizational psychologist, held a number of lectureships in universities around the world and has worked in both private and public sectors as a leadership trainer.
Clare’s work now focuses on providing vegans, animal advocates and worldwide animal protection agencies with tools to live in this “not-yet” vegan world, so they can communicate the imperative of veganism more effectively.
Clare coined the word Vystopia and wrote the definitive text Vystopia: The Anguish of Being Vegan in a Non Vegan World. Her work now focuses on helping vegans transform their anguish into powerful action for change. She runs several programs to empower vegans distraught by the “Burden of Knowing” to become powerful advocates for change and periodically runs a FREE 3-Day Vystopia Recovery Program. You can join the waitlist for the next event.
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Her talk for VSU focused on how “Vegan seniors can not only make the rest of their lives the best of their lives,” but assisted young people in developing a passion and means to be part of creating a more compassionate world.