Vicky Bond on what it’s really like to lead in animal advocacy

About this episode

Vicky Bond discusses her career in animal advocacy and leadership roles in organizations focused on animal welfare and climate issues.

Vicky Bond has done lots of impressive stuff in her career – she started working as a vet and later ended up running a 100+ person organisation, The Humane League (THL), which many of you might be familiar with as one of the key organisations campaigning to get chickens out of cages. She is now the CEO of Madre Brava, an international climate campaigning group focused on food. Given Vicky’s extensive leadership and management experience, managing teams ranging from 5 to over 110, I want...

People in this episode

Host: James Özden

Guest: Vicky Bond

Topics covered

• animal advocacy
• leadership
• climate campaigning
• food
• veterinary medicine

Keywords

• animal advocacy
• leadership
• The Humane League
• Madre Brava
• veterinarian

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Humane League, Madre Brava

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