I’m immensely grateful to everyone who took the time to talk to me for this study. I’m touched by their generosity and vulnerability, and I so hope that the insights I report here made good use of their time. Thank you to the following participants and others who preferred not to be named.
Andrea Diaz
Antonio Pirozzi
Britty Mann
Celeste Yamada
Chelsea Davis
Cameron Mehta
Cordelia Stone
Isaac Farias
David Michelson
Ganesh Hariharan
Jeff Stanek
Donya Hnath
Jeremy Beckham
Alex Kahn
AJ Jivdaya
Matthew Cooper
Nisha Kumar
Rachel Golusinski
Robert Yamada
Rebekah Robinson
Sara Andrews
Sasha Zemmel
Sidney Jesperson
Tanaka Granberry
Kai Fenn
Chandra Fuller
Naomi Davis
Tony Hoppe
Christina Liu
Mary Kate Fain
Amber Canavan
Dani Rukin
Aviva Gersovitch
A special thank you to Heather Rogers, who volunteered many hours helping me clean up interview transcripts.
We also thank We Animals Media and Direct Action Everywhere for making photos available for this project.