About SuperVegan

Cat Clyne is a freelance writer and editor. She has been an ethical vegan for half her life. From 1999 to 2007 she served as Editor-in-Chief of the monthly magazine Satya, a voice for animal, environmental, social justice and vegetarian activism. Prior to Satya, Cat worked in the music industry and the nonprofit sector for over a decade. She holds a Master's degree in religious studies from New York University. Cat is constantly inspired (and entertained) by her two feline pals, Pierre and Toby.

Once upon a Vegan Drinks, Sam swung a homemade peanut butter cup on a string in front of Olivia, repeating, "You're getting very hungry. You need a peanut butter cup. You will invite Sam to write for SuperVegan." And that's almost kind of sort of how Sam got to blogging for SuperVegan.

Before that fateful day, Sam blogged on her lonesome at Sam's Vegan Diner, where she occasionally posts something trivial.

Jason is responsible for most of the design and front-end code on the site, and more than a little of the content.

Jason makes music with The Glass Bees and Pirate Satellite. He's also a visual artist, and blogs mostly in pictures at Gas, Water, Nothing.

You can keep tabs on all of Jason's various rackets at JasonDas.com.

Deborah is a proud member of the Still Awesome After Thirty Crowd.  She rides a 20-year-old ten-speed bike, plays records, goes to shows, and keeps it vegan.  She's in her last year of law school, where she co-chairs her school's chapters of the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund and National Lawyers Guild.  After she graduates she hopes a legal services office in NYC will hire her to continue advocating for tenants' rights.  (Prior to law school, Deborah went to art school to study painting, cobbled together a Master's thesis about artists' organizing tactics during the Vietnam era, and spent nearly a decade working for a national women's health non-profit organization.)

Deborah is a co-founder of Vegan Drinks and volunteers with the National Lawyers Guild's Green Scare Hotline.

I'm a computer programmer, band photographer, and entertainment writer from New York City. An intolerable hippie and insufferable vegan to most of my friends, I'll get involved in any cause that helps our environment or its inhabitants. I've been a vegan for 14 years now and am often reluctant to leave NYC for fear of starving. I recently became an anti-whaling pirate with the Sea Shepherd group, and if I could become a pirate to help cats too I would.

I also put up a donations page, if anyone wants to help me pay for plane tickets to my next Sea Shepherd campaign.

Patrick writes about food and restaurants for SuperVegan. He is an accomplished vegan cook and widely-regarded expert of New York City's vegetarian restaurants (by his friends) - his March '06 article in Satya magazine profiling some of the city's best veggie bets is still widely referenced and proudly displayed by restaurants in their windows.

Since tagging along with his college activist sister at the age of 12 to campaign against sweatshops, Patrick has organized scores of rallies, trainings, and conferences in the animal rights, human rights, and environmental movements.

When not writing for SuperVegan (or eating, cooking, or sleeping), he works to fight animal cruelty as the New York state director for The Humane Society of the United States, the nation's largest animal protection organization.

In his prior lives, he worked at a corporate PR firm where he handled media for the City of New York's animal rescue efforts through the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals and the Chinatown neighborhood through The September 11th Fund's "Explore Chinatown" campaign, and was the executive director of the Student Animal Rights Alliance, a field organizer for Amnesty International, and a media assistant for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.

He has also served as a lead organizer for the Animal Defense League and Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade, student-area coordinator for Amnesty International, and youth advisory board member of the Center for Environmental Citizenship (now part of the League of Conservation Voters Education Fund).

Patrick firmly believes a meal is not complete unless it has at least three courses.

Olivia, SuperVegan Editor-at-Large, is a proud survivor of the CUNY Hunter College experience, where she earned a liberal arts degree which readied her for her current (kickass!) jobs at Angelica Kitchen and Sustainable NYC.

Olivia enjoys daydreaming, eating, drawing, reading graphic novels and how-to books, writing, crafting, baking birthday cakes, making cards for friends, and dancing at house parties. She is also a lover of squirrels and currently holds the title of World's Oldest 19 Year Old. Olivia lives in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn with her kooky cats Lucy and Marty.

Olivia became vegan in 2002 after reading Why Vegan and believes that getting information and a good, simple homemade vegan meal to the entire world is the path to animal liberation.

As our Technical Director, Laura is responsible for most of the junk under the hood at SuperVegan: PHP, MySQL, etc.

Laura lives in the East Village dammit, Brooklyn, like everyone else, with her two cats, Lucifer and Angel. Laura loves travel, history, and various geeky pursuits.

Laura went vegan at age thirteen and occasionally forgets that the rest of the world hasn't caught up yet.

Roseann is a native New Yorker who recently defected to Fort Lauderdale. She's happy to have escaped all the snow but desperately misses the subway, Blossom, the V-Spot and Cocoa V.

New York City's Brownbird Rudy Relic is the world's first and only Straight-Edge Vegan Chicano Blues musician. In addition to being a vegan foodie, a recovering zinester and part time skateboarder, he now blogs exclusively for SuperVegan.

Anne went veg while growing up in rural Michigan (credit goes to her mom, whose father was a butcher--offering an unwelcome intimacy with the realities of meat production). See photo at right for a glimpse into her glamorous past.

She is now a long-time vegan who lives in Brooklyn and directs publicity for The New Press.

In the not-so-distant past, Anne worked with Laura Leslie, Jason Das, and Olivia Lane at Lantern Books.

Hi, I'm Andrea and I just can't get on board with the whole "write your bio in third person" thing. I'm writing it. You know I'm writing it. So why should I refer to myself as "she?" It's creepy in a way I'm just not comfortable with. Something else that doesn't sit well is my mom's insistence that my vegetarianism was inspired by the 1991 Billy Crystal/Norman The Cow vehicle City Slickers. If anything, that movie helped solidify my theory (at the tender age of 14) that middle-aged men aren't funny, that I should avoid, if at all possible, ever becoming one and that Jake Gyllenhaal is nice to look at in the face. I've cultivated two out of the three beliefs and am currently a single Vegan lady with occasional (read: constant) authority issues and a silver Prius. Hey fellas! Find out more about Andrea at ihateselfpromotion.com --see, that was weird.