Dr. Alejandra Arbe Montoya is a general practice and emergency critical care veterinarian. She completed a PhD in the field of Veterinary Workforce and Moral Distress and was the primary author of four original articles published in 2017, 2019, and 2021. She completed a Mental Health First Aid course in 2018 and was part of the team that revised the AVA Employer of Choice online course before its launch in 2021. Her research focuses on reasons why veterinarians leave clinical practice and the influence of moral and ethical stressors. She is the founder, Director, and Chief Veterinarian of a veterinary labour hire company called The Locum Vet. The Locum Vet supports a network of locum veterinarians and provides locums to practices throughout Australia. She currently sits as a Board Director of the Veterinary Surgeons Board of South Australia mentors new graduates, and tutors veterinary and vet tech students. Her clinical interests include animal welfare, feline medicine, and emergency. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, playing board games, and spending time with her cats.

Dr. Erin Zamzow is a Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine graduate. She was a conscientious objector to harmful animal use at WSU and helped her school implement an alternative program. She is vegan and has worked as a mixed animal veterinarian, owned a mobile equine dentistry practice, a brick-and-mortar integrative small animal practice, and currently has a small, limited house call practice. She works as the veterinarian for Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest, where she oversees the physical and behavioral health of 15 chimpanzees from the biomedical research industry as well as four Jersey cattle that were once on a reality TV show who now get to live their best bovine lives on acres of pasture on the sanctuary grounds. She frequently offers discounted or donated veterinary services to local animal rescues and feels veterinary medicine should be affordable and accessible to all.

Dr Cora Catak is a graduate of the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine, class of 2020. Before that, she attended Brooklyn College for her pre-veterinary studies, where she took an animal rights and welfare philosophy course, which made her become passionate about animal rights and welfare issues. She has volunteered at NYC City shelters, ASPCA during college, and at the local shelters during veterinary school. She served on the HSVMA Illinois Student Chapter and Shelter Medicine Club board during veterinary school. 

Since graduation, she has worked in small animal and exotics emergency and is now working in toxicology. She has been vegan for over ten years now and is passionate about veganism, animal rights, and animal cruelty issues. Originally from Turkey, she is also interested in international animal rights issues.

Dr. Crystal Heath is a 2012 UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine graduate. She grew up in a rural agricultural area, was vice-president of her 4-H club and even campaigned for Grand National Rodeo Queen, but is now a vegan and animal rights activist. Since graduating, she has spent her career helping homeless animals in shelters while working part-time at a general practice. Dr. Heath volunteers abroad to help animals overseas, winning a Jefferson Award for volunteering in Fiji. She believes in advancing compassionate care for all species on this planet. She advocates for One Health, the idea that human, plant, animal, and environmental health are all interconnected, and believes in confronting the corporations and institutions that stand in the way of advancing the compassionate care of all species on this planet.

Julie is a vegan and lifelong animal activist. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in Psychology from U.C. Santa Barbara. She was instrumental in helping pass AB-44, which banned the sale of fur in California, and uncovered an astroturf campaign to bus in activists to speak in opposition of the bill, as reported by the Intercept. She has assisted in passing various animal protection laws while volunteering and working with various animal protection organizations, including Social Compassion in Legislation.